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Afrikaans
Noun
beke
- plural of beek
Baiso
Noun
beke
- water
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch beki, from Proto-West Germanic *baki, from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“brook, beach”).
Noun
bēke f
- brook
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
Further reading
Old Dutch
Noun
beke f
- Alternative form of beki
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Tagalog
Etymology
From earlier bayki, bayiki, from metathesis of Proto-Central Philippine *bayəʔək. Compare Bikol Central bayuko and Cebuano bayuok.
Pronunciation
Noun
bekè (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜃᜒ) (pathology)
- mumps
- Synonym: buklaw
Derived terms
Further reading
- “beke”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Zorc, David Paul (1979–1983) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 1, page 33
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila
- page 463: “Papera) Bayicqi (pp) ẽfermedad vſada deſtos”
- page 463: “Papera) Bicqi (pc) es mayor papera eſta q̃ la paſada”