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

  1. Having a beach; simple past tense and past...

Ancestry of “beached”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-edUsed to form past tenses of verbs. In...
2Middle English-edAlternative form of -hede
3Old English-edformed into the likeness of, made into, shaped...
Every word from Old English -ed
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