Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/bōkijā

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From *bōku +‎ *-jā (agent suffix).

Noun

*bōkijā f

1. beech

   Synonym: *bōku

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*bōkijā
Genitive	*bōkijōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*bōkijā	*bōkijōn
Accusative	*bōkijōn	*bōkijōn
Genitive	*bōkijōn	*bōkijōnō
Dative	*bōkijōn	*bōkijōm, *bōkijum
Instrumental	*bōkijōn	*bōkijōm, *bōkijum

Related terms

• *bōk
• *bōku

Derived terms

• *bōkīn

Descendants

• Old English: bēċe, bœ̄ċe
  • Middle English: beche
    • English: beech
    • Scots: beech
• Old Frisian: bōk
  • Saterland Frisian: Bouke
  • West Frisian: boek, boeke (in compounds)
• Old Saxon: bōkia
  • Middle Low German: böke
    • German Low German: Böke, Böök
    • Low German: Böke
    • → Dutch: beuk
      • Afrikaans: beuk
• Old Dutch: *buoka
  • Middle Dutch: boeke
    • Dutch: beuk
      • Afrikaans: beuk
• Old High German: buohha, *buohhia, buocha (weak n-stem)
  • Middle High German: buoche (possibly conflated with descendant from *bōkō)
    • Alemannic German: Buech
    • German: Buche, Büche
    • Luxembourgish: Bich
    • Vilamovian: bih́łiḱ
• → Proto-Slavic: *buky (see there for further descendants)