biche
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Middle French biche, from Old French biche (“doe, female deer”) and bisse (“wild animal”), of uncertain origin and relation. The form bisse is almost certainly from Vulgar Latin bīstia, variant of Latin bēstia (compare bête); however, the contemporary biche is an enigma, and possibly unrelated. It may be the Picard or Norman form of bisse, (compare chent for cent) or may share origin with Middle French bique (“nanny-goat”), believed to be derived from Proto-Germanic *bik (“goat”) or perhaps related to Icelandic bikkja (“old mare, nag”). More at bouc.
Noun edit
biche f (plural biches)
- doe, hind
- darling, sweetheart (affectionate name for one's girlfriend)
- cutie
Derived terms edit
- pied-de-biche (“crowbar”)
Etymology 2 edit
Inflected forms.
Verb edit
biche
- inflection of bicher:
Further reading edit
- “biche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Noun edit
biche f
Middle English edit
Noun edit
biche
- Alternative form of bicche
Norman edit
Alternative forms edit
- bich (Sark)
Etymology edit
From Anglo-Norman biche (“bitch, female dog, doe, hind”), from Middle English bicche (“bitch”). Cognate with French bique (“female goat, horse, old woman”), Icelandic bikkja (“mare, nag”), English bitch.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Jersey) (file)
Noun edit
biche f (plural biches)
Coordinate terms edit
- trop-pliein (“drunk man”)
Derived terms edit
Old French edit
Noun edit
biche oblique singular, f (oblique plural biches, nominative singular biche, nominative plural biches)
- Alternative form of bisse
Portuguese edit
Verb edit
biche
- inflection of bichar:
Rendille edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
biche
Further reading edit
- Günther Schlee, Karaba Sahado, Rendille Proverbs in their Social and Legal Context (2002), page 92: biche
- Günther Schlee, Some open problems of Rendille grammar (1978), page 64: biche
- Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, volume 10, page 199: bice
- Harold C Fleming, Baiso and Rendille: Somali Outliers: biče'
- Hans-Jürgen Sasse, The Consonant Phonèmes of Proto-East Cushitic (PEC), A First Approximation, Afroasiatic Linguistics, volume 7, issue 1 (1979)
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
biche m (plural biches)
- Alternative spelling of viche
Further reading edit
- “biche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014