Where does “beached” come from?
Beached comes from Old English bæce, from Proto-Germanic bakiz, from Proto-Indo-European bʰog-, meaning a stream or watercourse that shaped the sense of a pebbly shore.
beached (English): Having a beach; simple past tense and past...
Definitions
- Having a beach; simple past tense and past...
Ancestry of “beached”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | -ed | Used to form past tenses of verbs. In... |
| 2 | Middle English | -ed | Alternative form of -hede |
| 3 | Old English | -ed | formed into the likeness of, made into, shaped... |