Where does “breedbekkikker” come from?

breedbekkikker (Dutch) comes from Dutch bek, from Middle Dutch bec, from Old French bec, from Latin beccus, from Latin -āceus, from Latin -āx, from Latin -ium, from Latin -ius — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.

breedbekkikker (Dutch): a fictional type of frog with an unusually wide mouth

Definitions

  1. a fictional type of frog with an unusually wide mouth

Ancestry of “breedbekkikker”, step by step

breedbekkikker traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Dutch bek

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dutchbeka bird's beak; any animal's mouth; a human mouth
2Middle Dutchbec
3Old Frenchbecbeak, bill
4Latinbeccusbeak, bill
5Latin-āceusaceous; resembling, having the nature of, forming, belonging to
6Latin-āxish, -y
7Latin-iumSuffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes...
8Latin-iusforming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter...
9Proto-Italic-jōsForms comparative adjectives
10Proto-Indo-European-yósCreates adjectives from noun or verb stems

via Dutch breed

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dutchbreedbroad, wide
2Dutchspoortrack; railway track; trace
3Middle Dutchspor
4Old Dutchsportrack, trace
5Proto-West Germanic*spor
6Proto-Germanicspurątrack
7Proto-Indo-EuropeansperH-to kick

via Dutch kikker

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1DutchkikkerA frog, relatively smooth amphibian of the order...
2Dutchkikkento croak, sound like a frog
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yós