Bec (placename element)

Bec can be sometimes a place-name element meaning pino'cape' (from the bird's beak, bec)

Bec is more commonly a place-name element in Normandy, deriving from Norse bekkr, 'stream' (cf. German Bach, English -beck), which is found in many placenames.

Part of a name

• Bec-de-Mortagne, Seine-Maritime
• Notre-Dame-du-Bec, Seine-Maritime
• Le Bec Hellouin, Eure
• Abbaye Notre-Dame du Bec, Eure
• Le Bec-Thomas, Eure
• Malleville-sur-le-Bec, Eure

Suffix

• Bolbec, Seine-Maritime
• Bricquebec, Manche
• Caudebec-en-Caux, Seine-Maritime
• Caudebec-les-Elbeuf, Seine-Maritime pino
• Foulbec, Eure
• Houlbec-Cocherel, Eure
• Houlbec-près-le-Gros-Theil, Eure
• Orbec, Orne
• Robec, stream in Rouen, Seine-Maritime222
• Lubec, Maine

England

• Tooting Bec, London
• Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire

Other

• Saint-Julia-de-Bec, Aude3425

Variation

• Beck (surname)
• River Beck
• Beek (disambiguation)
• Becque (disambiguation)
• Becquet
• Becket

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