becca

See also: Becca

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbek.ka/
• Rhymes: -ekka
• Hyphenation: béc‧ca

Verb

becca

1. inflection of beccare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Old English

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-West Germanic *bekkō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“hook; to bend, curve”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbek.kɑ/

Noun

becca m

1. mattock, pickaxe

Declension

Weak:

	singular	plural
nominative	becca	beccan
accusative	beccan	beccan
genitive	beccan	beccena
dative	beccan	beccum

Descendants

• Middle English: bekke, bek
  • English: beck (dialectal)

Old Irish

Adjective

becca

1. Alternative spelling of beca

Mutation

Mutation of becca

radical	lenition	nasalization
becca	becca pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mbecca

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.