bec
French
noun
Definitions
- (anatomy) beak, bill of bird
- (colloquial) kiss
Etymology
Inherited from Latin beccus (beak) derived from Gaulish *beccos (chicken beak, small) derived from Proto-Celtic *bekkos (beak, hook, snout).
Origin
Proto-Celtic
*bekkos
Gloss
beak, hook, snout
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *piccus Latin
- beccus Latin
- becco Italian
- arrière-bec French
- bécasse French
- bécot French
- бекас Russian
- *bak- Proto-Indo-European
- beckasin Swedish
- bec Middle English
- bec Catalan, Valencian
- bicar Galician
- bec Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- beko Ido
- baec Norman
- bécassine Norman
- bécot Norman
- бекас Bulgarian
- bico Old Portuguese
- *bekkos Proto-Celtic
- bèc Occitan
- bec Friulian
- bico Old Spanish
- *beccos Gaulish
- *bekkos Gaulish