Etymograph

English

halfbeak

From half + beak.

A compound of half + beak

Proto-Germanic *halbaz

Proto-West Germanic *halb

Old English healf

Middle English half

English half

Latin beccus ‘beak, bill’

Anglo-Norman bec

Middle English bec

English beak

Today it means

noun Any slender, marine fish of the family Hemiramphidae, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower, the balahoos or ballyhoos.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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