belgie
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.34 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "“I don’t hold with foreigners as a rule, but from what the newspapers say I make out as how these brave Belgies isn’t the ordinary run of foreigners, and certainly he’s a most polite spoken gentleman.”"
- "Jim Reed began talking about the Tommies, the Aussies, the Froggies, the Belgies, the Pork and Cheese."
- "Money's coming through any day from the Belgies — it's all in order, paper work, all that — but we need to put up a bit extra just now. Before it comes through."
- "If you listen carefully, you can hear the Belgies down below in the underground galleries. Hundreds of them there are."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-? Proto-Celtic *belgosbor. Latin Belgae Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin belgicusder. Proto-Indo-European *gelH-? Proto-Celtic *galnatibor. Latin Gallus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin Gallia ▲ Latin Belgica Latin Gallia Belgicaellip. Latin Belgicader. Latin Belgiumbor. English Belgium Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Belg(ian) English -ie English Belgie From Belg(ian) + -ie.