beccal

English

Etymology

From Latin beccus (“beak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛkəl/

Adjective

beccal (not comparable)

1. 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

Alternative forms

• (Maasina) wecco

Noun

beccal ngal (plural becce ɗe)

1. (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