Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/bōku

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 Proto-Germanic *bōkō.

Noun

*bōku f

1. beech

   Synonym: *bōkijā

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*bōku
Genitive	*bōkā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*bōku	*bōkō
Accusative	*bōkā	*bōkā
Genitive	*bōkā	*bōkō
Dative	*bōkē	*bōkōm, *bōkum
Instrumental	*bōku	*bōkōm, *bōkum

Related terms

• *bōk

Derived terms

• *bōkijā
• *bōkīn

Descendants

• Old English: bōc
  • Middle English: bok, boc, boke, book, booke, buk, buke
    • English: book (see there for further descendants)
    • Geordie English: buik, beuk
    • Scots: buik, beuk, buke, beuck
    • Yola: buke
• Old Frisian: bōk
  • West Frisian: boeck, boek
• Old Saxon: bōka
  • Middle Low German: bôke
    • Low German: Böök, Böke
    • Dutch Low Saxon: beuk
      • → Dutch: beuk
• Old Dutch: *buoka (in placenames)
  • Middle Dutch: boec
    • Dutch: boek (only in compounds and placenames, displaced by eastern beuk)
• Old High German: buohha, *buohhia, buocha
  • Middle High German: buoche (possibly conflated with descendant from *bōkō)
    • Alemannic German: Buech
    • German: Buche, Büche
    • Luxembourgish: Bich
    • Vilamovian: bih́łiḱ