Entry record from Kroon (2016): Lamaholot Solor
Page number: 306
beta[bəta]
• n. indication telling that a fruit such as sugar-apple, or cassava yam is ready to harvest. For a sugar-apple, the fruit surface is no longer rough, and for cassava, the soil around the stem has some cracks.
Mo ba'é uwé kayo doré pé beta kaé wéIf you want to dig up the cassava, choose those which are already ready to harvest