beaucoup
French
adv
Definitions
- much, very much, a lot
Etymology
Inherited from Old French biau cop compound from French beau (handsome, beautiful, nice) + French coup (strike, blow, hit).
Origin
French
coup
Gloss
strike, blow, hit
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- beau English
- beau joueur English
- beau sabreur English
- beaucoup English
- boko English
- bookoo English
- count coup English
- coup English
- colpus Latin
- Coup German
- coup Dutch, Flemish
- Beauchamp French
- Beaumont French
- Beauregard French
- Bellefontaine French
- Lebeau French
- beau French
- bellâtre French
- coup French
- κόλᾰφος Ancient Greek
- kupp Norwegian Bokmål
- kupp Swedish
- kupp Norwegian Nynorsk
- kup Danish
- biau cop Old French
- colp Old French
- beau Middle French
- boukou Mauritian Creole
- boucou Louisiana Creole French
- boku Nigerian Pidgin