bettieħ
Maltese
Alternative forms
- bettiħ
Etymology
From Arabic بِطِّيخ (biṭṭīḵ). The etymologically more justified (and prescriptively preferred) spelling bettiħ is very rare in practice since the word is treated as belonging to the common measure C-e-CC-ie-C. (The phonemes /iː/ and /ɪː/ are merged before /ħ/ and /ʔ/.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɛtˈtɪːħ/
Noun
bettieħ m (collective, singulative bettieħa, paucal bettiħat or bettiħiet)
- melon, melons