Etymograph

English

beached

Beached comes from English beach ‘sandy shore’, from Old English bæċ ‘stream’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- ‘to break’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰeg-1‘to break’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*bakiz1‘brook, stream’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*baki1‘brook’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150bæċ1‘stream’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500bache1
  6. English1500–presentbeach1‘sandy shore’
  7. Englishearliest quotation c. 1605–1608beached1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English beached
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, The Life of Tymon of Athens: “Come not to me again: but say to Athens,…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰeg-Wiktionary, English beached‘to break’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*bakizWiktionary, English beached‘brook, stream’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*bakiWiktionary, English beached‘brook’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150bæċWiktionary, English beached‘stream’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500bacheWiktionary, English beached
  6. English1500–presentbeachWiktionary, English beached‘sandy shore’
  7. Englishearliest quotation c. 1605–1608beachedWiktionary, English beached. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, The Life of Tymon of Athens: “Come not to me again: but say to Athens,…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- ‘to break’

bank, bitch, baker, bench, banquet, baxter, petite, petit, banco, bicker, banque, bichon, 8 more

through Old English bæċ ‘stream’

back

through Middle English bache

batch, 1 more

Today it means

adj Having a beach.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “beached”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- / beached

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