becca

See also: Becca

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbek.ka/
  • Rhymes: -ekka
  • Hyphenation: béc‧ca

Verb

becca

  1. inflection of beccare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Old English

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-West Germanic *bekkō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“hook; to bend, curve”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbek.kɑ/

Noun

becca m

  1. mattock, pickaxe

Declension

Weak:

singular plural
nominative becca beccan
accusative beccan beccan
genitive beccan beccena
dative beccan beccum

Descendants

  • Middle English: bekke, bek
    • English: beck (dialectal)

Old Irish

Adjective

becca

  1. alternative spelling of beca

Mutation

Mutation of becca
radical lenition nasalization
becca becca
pronounced with /βʲ-/		 mbecca

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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