specht
Dutch (Brabantic)
/spɛxt/
noun
Definitions
- woodpecker, bird of the family Picidae.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Dutch specht inherited from Old Dutch *speht inherited from *spiht inherited from Proto-Germanic *spihtaz derived 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
- ivoor Dutch, Flemish
- ivoorsnavelspecht Dutch, Flemish
- snavel Dutch, Flemish
- *(s)peyk- Proto-Indo-European
- *spihtaz Proto-Germanic
- peto Galician
- specht Middle Dutch
- speht Old 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
- pies Cornish