Where does “dubelt” come from?
dubelt (Polish) comes from French double-bécassine, from French bécassine, from French bécasse, from French bec, from Old French bec, from Latin beccus, from Latin -āceus, from Latin -āx — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
dubelt (Polish): great snipe
Definitions
- great snipe
Ancestry of “dubelt”, step by step
dubelt traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French double-bécassine
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | double-bécassine | great snipe |
| 2 | French | bécassine | snipe |
| 3 | French | bécasse | woodcock |
| 4 | French | bec | beak, bill; kiss |
| 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 |