# beti
## Basque
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: /beti/, [be̞.t̪i]

### Adverb

beti (not comparable)
* always

## Guyanese Creole English
### Noun

beti
* Alternative spelling of baytee (“daughter”)

### References

* Henry, Edgar A. (2022) The Guyanese Slang Alphabet, Dorrance Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 37

## Ido
### Noun

beti
* plural of beto

## Lindu
### Noun

beti
* measuring rope

## Muduapa
### Noun

beti
* banana

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology

From English bite; sense “bait” possibly from or influenced by English bait (which is itself a doublet of bite).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbeti/, [ˈbɪ̞ti], [ˈbe̝ti]

### Verb

beti
* to bite

### Noun

beti
* bite
* bait

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Etymology 1

Possibly from English belt.

#### Noun

beti class V (plural mabeti class VI)
* a kind of pouch used by soldiers

##### Derived terms

* kibeti (“purse, wallet”)

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

beti class IX (plural beti class X)
* Alternative form of ubeti

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from English bet.

#### Alternative forms

* -bet

#### Verb

-beti (infinitive kubeti)
* to bet, gamble

##### Conjugation

Conjugation of -beti :
| Positive present | -nabeti |
| Subjunctive | -beti |
| Negative | -beti |
| Imperative singular | beti |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kubeti |
| Negative | kutobeti |
Imperatives :
| Singular | beti |
| Plural | betini |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hubeti |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -libeti |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kubeti |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tabeti |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tabeti |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sibeti |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngebeti |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singebeti |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalibeti |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalibeti |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -mebeti |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshabeti |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -jabeti |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kibeti |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipobeti |
| Consecutive | kabeti / positive subject concord + -kabeti |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kabeti |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

## Uneapa
### Etymology

From Proto-Western Oceanic *bʷatiq with irregular e and loss of *q. Not related to Proto-Oceanic *pudi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *punti, due to phonological problems, although it was proposed by Johnston (1982).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /beti/

### Noun

beti
* banana

### Further reading

* Terry Crowley et al, The Oceanic Languages (2013), page 364, 370
* Johnston, R.L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic, 59-95.
* Lynch, John (2002 December) “The Proto-Oceanic Labiovelars: Some New Observations”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 41, number 2, pages 310-362

## West Makian
### Etymology

Said by Voorhoeve to be from North Moluccan Malay [Term?]. Compare North Moluccan Malay pece (“mud”), Indonesian becek (“mud”), Ternate bece (“dust”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbe.t̪i/

### Noun

beti
* a swamp
* mud

### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics