Etymology

beachfront

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Today it means: Of property (real estate): located on a beach. Full definition →

English front ← Middle English frount ← Old French front
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeg-
  2. Proto-Germanic*bakiz
  3. Proto-West Germanic*baki
  4. Old Englishbæċ
  5. Middle Englishbache
  6. Englishbeach
  7. Latinfrontem
  8. Old Frenchfront
  9. Middle Englishfrount
  10. Englishfront
  11. English todaybeachfront

From beach + front.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.