beach – English noun declension

English noun forms of beach

Noun: beach
Singularbeach
Pluralbeaches

Sample Sentences

  • Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • Up and down, the beach lay empty for miles. [1988, Robert Ferro, Second Son:]
  • I never realised Lincoln was a seaside town. BRIAN LAWS Scunthorpe manager, after losing on a liberally sanded beach of a pitch [2008, Phil Shaw, The Book of Football Quotations, page 415:]
  • The series was brought to an ironic conclusion when England became hoist by their own petard, as they lost the deciding final Test on a 'beach' of a wicket. Neither side batted well. [2012, Tim Quelch, Bent Arms & Dodgy Wickets:]
  • That beach should be punished!

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.
3. Proto-Germanic *bakiz
4. Proto-West Germanic *baki
5. Old English bæċ
6. Middle English bache
7. English beach
8. From Middle English bache, bæcche (“bank, sandbank”), from Old English beċe (“beck, brook, stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *baki, from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“brook”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“flowing water”).
9. Cognates
10. Cognate with Cimbrian pach (“brook, creek, stream”), Dutch beek (“brook, stream”), German Bach (“brook, stream”), German Low German Beek (“brook, stream”), Luxembourgish Baach (“brook, stream”), Mòcheno pòch (“brook, creek, stream”), Vilamovian bāh, baoch (“brook, stream”), Danish bæk (“brook”), Icelandic bekkur (“creek, spring, stream”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk bekk (“brook, creek, stream”), Swedish bäck (“brook, creek, stream”); also Lithuanian banga (“billow, wave”). More at batch, beck. See: Middle English Nouns 'bache, bæcche', Old English Nouns 'beċe', Dutch Nouns 'beek', German Nouns 'Bach', Danish Nouns 'bæk', Icelandic Nouns 'bekkur', Swedish Nouns 'bäck'.

Verbs referencing "beach"

French Nouns beach, German Nouns Bach, Finnish Nouns biitsi, German Nouns Beachparty, Zulu Nouns ibhishi, English Nouns beach sandal.