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English
Etymology
From Latin beccus (“beak”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
beccal (not comparable)
- Pertaining to a beak or bill.
1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 375:It faced me…its ominous Beak crank’d open…it quack’d, its eye holding a certain gleam, and began to speak, in a curious Accent, inflected heavily with linguo-beccal Fricatives […]
Fula
Noun
beccal ngal (plural becce ɗe)
- (Adamawa) rib
References
- Tourneux, Henry, Boubakary, Abdoulaye, Gayaou, Hadidja-Konaï, Ousmane, Fakih (2020) Dictionnaire peul du corps et de la santé (Diamaré, Cameroun) (in French), Paris, retrieved 6 May 2023