Where does “매부리바다거북” come from?
매부리바다거북 (Korean) comes from Korean 부리, from English beak, from Middle English bec, from Anglo-Norman bec, from Old French bec, from Latin beccus, from Latin -āceus, from Latin -āx — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
매부리바다거북 (Korean): hawksbill sea turtle
Definitions
- hawksbill sea turtle
Ancestry of “매부리바다거북”, step by step
매부리바다거북 traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Korean 부리
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Korean | 부리 | a beak; a pointed end like a beak or a tip |
| 2 | English | beak | "Anatomical uses"; "Figurative uses"; "Colloquial... |
| 3 | Middle English | bec | — |
| 4 | Anglo-Norman | bec | — |
| 5 | Old French | bec | beak, bill |
| 6 | Latin | beccus | beak, bill |
| 7 | Latin | -āceus | aceous; resembling, having the nature of, forming, belonging to |
| 8 | Latin | -āx | ish, -y |
| 9 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 10 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |
via Korean 바다거북
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Korean | 바다거북 | A sea turtle, particularly the green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) |
| 2 | Korean | 바다 | sea; ocean |
| 3 | Proto-Korean | patak | sea; ocean |
via Korean 매
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Korean | 매 | hawk; the peregrine falcon, "Falco peregrinus";... |