'pointed-beaked' is a Modern English compound formed from 'pointed' (from 'point' + adjectival '-ed') and 'beaked' (from 'beak' + adjectival '-ed'). 'point' comes via Old French 'point' from Latin 'punctum' where 'punctum' meant 'a pricked or pointed thing'; 'beak' comes from Old French 'bec' (also from Germanic sources such as Proto-Germanic '*bekkaz') where the root meant 'beak, bill'.

'point' entered English from Old French 'point', itself from Latin 'punctum'; it developed into Middle English forms (point) and then the adjectival form 'pointed' with '-ed'. 'beak' appears in Middle English as 'bek'/'beak' from Old French 'bec' (and earlier Germanic roots) and yielded the adjective 'beaked'. The two adjectives were later combined in Modern English as the hyphenated compound 'pointed-beaked'.

Individually, 'point' originally referred to a sharp or pricked place and 'beak' to the bird's bill; over time the compound came to mean specifically 'having a sharply pointed bill' rather than referring to separate notions of 'point' and 'beak'.