Old English · noun
benc
Normalised benċ
- Part of speech
- noun, feminine
- Declension
- strong i-stem
- IPA
- /bent͡ʃ/
- Syllables
- bent͡ʃ (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- bench
Meaning
-
bench
Declension
All forms (4)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz. Cognate with Old Saxon banc (Dutch bank), Old High German banch (German Bank), Old Norse *benkr (Swedish bänk).
Descendants
bench
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