wheat

B2 Topic:Plants & Agriculture

US /wiːt/ See IPA manual

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Sounds like wit /ɪ/ vs /iː/ Sounds like whit /ɪ/ vs /iː/

Freq #6910

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1

noun
A cereal grain grown for food and used to make flour for bread, pasta, and other foods.

The farmers harvested the golden wheat at the end of summer.
2

noun
A pale yellowish-brown colour, like that of ripe wheat.

They painted the kitchen walls a warm shade of wheat.

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2 noun · a pale yellowish-brown... straw

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Forms wheats

From Middle English whete, from Old English hwǣte, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaitī, from Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz (compare West Frisian weet, Dutch weit, Low German Weten, German Weizen, Danish hvede, Swedish vete, Norwegian Nynorsk kveite, Icelandic hveiti), from *hwītaz (“white”). More at white.

whete Middle English hwǣte Old English *hwaitī Proto-West Germanic *hwaitijaz Proto-Germanic

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# wheat

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B2
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /wiːt/
**Frequency rank:** 6910

## Meanings
1. A cereal grain grown for food and used to make flour for bread, pasta, and other foods.
2. A pale yellowish-brown colour, like that of ripe wheat.

## Examples
- The farmers harvested the golden wheat at the end of summer.
- They painted the kitchen walls a warm shade of wheat.

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: whete
- Root: hwǣte
- Root: *hwaitī
- Root: *hwaitijaz

## Etymology
From Middle English whete, from Old English hwǣte, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaitī, from Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz (compare West Frisian weet, Dutch weit, Low German Weten, German Weizen, Danish hvede, Swedish vete, Norwegian Nynorsk kveite, Icelandic hveiti), from *hwītaz (“white”). More at white.

## AI Etymology
Wheat is from Middle English whete, from Old English hwǣte, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaitī, from Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz (compare West Frisian weet, Dutch weit, Low German Weten, German Weizen, Danish hvede, Swedish vete, Norwegian Nynorsk kveite, Icelandic hveiti), from *hwītaz (“white”). More at white. Important historical forms include Middle English whete, Old English hwǣte, Proto-West Germanic *hwaitī, and Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz. In present-day use, it can mean a cereal grain grown for food and used to make flour for bread, pasta, and other foods, or a pale yellowish-brown colour, like that of ripe wheat.

## Topics
- Plants & Agriculture

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