Noun: wheat
| Singular | wheat |
| Plural | wheats |
Sample Sentences
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They bought a sack of wheat and a sack of rye with the intent to try their hand at milling and baking.
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They debated the paint color options for the bathroom walls and settled on wheat.
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Customer: A tuna sandwich, please. Waiter: Sure, hon. You want that on white, wheat, or rye?
Nouns inflected like wheat
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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 Bokmål hvete, Norwegian Nynorsk kveite, Faroese and Icelandic hveiti), from *hwītaz (“white”). More at white. See: Middle English Nouns '
whete', Old English Nouns '
hwǣte', Dutch Nouns '
weit', German Nouns '
Weizen', Danish Nouns '
hvede', Swedish Nouns '
vete', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns '
hvete', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
kveite'.
Verbs referencing "wheat"
German Nouns
Weizen, Dutch Nouns
weit, Old Norse Nouns
hveiti, Latvian Nouns
kvieši, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
kveite, Dutch Nouns
witbier.