Specht
German (Berlin)
/ʃpɛçt/
noun
Definitions
- (generally) picid member of the Picidae family of birds
- (specifically) woodpecker member of the Picinae subfamily of birds
Etymology
Inherited from Middle High German specht inherited from Old High German speht inherited from *spiht inherited from Proto-Germanic *spihtaz inherited from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (magpie, woodpecker, a kind of bird, wookpecker).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)peyk-
Gloss
magpie, woodpecker, a kind of bird, wookpecker
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- speight English
- Picumnus Latin
- Pīcumnus Latin
- pica Latin
- picus Latin
- pīca Latin
- Buntspecht German
- Gold German
- Goldspecht German
- Grünspecht German
- Hardt German
- Mauer German
- Mauerspecht German
- Schwarz German
- Schwarzspecht German
- Spessart German
- bunt German
- grün German
- pic French
- *(s)peyk- Proto-Indo-European
- *spihtaz Proto-Germanic
- pie Old French
- pigo Esperanto
- peto Galician
- speht Old High German
- specht Middle High German
- Spiecht Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- *spiht gmw-pro
- *speht Old Dutch
- specht Middle Low German
- speht Old Saxon
- *peikā Proto-Italic
- *spiht, *speht Frankish
- *spiāht Old Frisian
- piak Volapük
- pies Cornish
- pika Basque