The story
- French · borrowed frombarbe“beard; long hair of certain animals”
- English todaybarbet
From French barbe (“beard; long hair of certain animals”).
Words from the same roots
Frenchbarbe all →
barby
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
barbet
Today it means: Any of numerous arboreal birds of the families Capitonidae, Lybiidae, and Megalaimidae, within the order Piciformes. Full definition →
French barbe