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* As an English surname, from personal names based on pet forms of Beatrice or Elizabeth, also masculine pet forms of Bertram and Bartholomew. * As a German surname from the noun Bett.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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* As an English surname, from personal names based on pet forms of Beatrice or Elizabeth, also masculine pet forms of Bertram and Bartholomew. * As a German surname from the noun Bett.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.