10.17 b-b To dive - plonger |
| Engl. | beave | to dive (birds) |
| Engl. | beaver | the diving mammal |
| Germ. | biber | beaver (Ital. bevero and Span. bibara are liter. borrowings) |
| Germ. | bieberente | Red-breasted Merganser, 61 (literally "diving duck") |
| Franç. | bièvre | beaver, Red-breaster Merganser, French Harle bièvre, 61. No relation to "brown"; the characteristic of the beaver is not to be brown but to be a diver |
| Lith. | bebras | beaver, Lettish bebris id. |
| Pol. | bóbr | beaver |
| Roman. | breb | id. |
| Skr. | babhro | id. |
| Zend | bavra | id. |