bøg

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bog"

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse bók (“beech”), from Proto-Germanic *bōkō, cognate with English beech, German Buche. The Danish form has the vowel from the old collective noun bøge (in place names), from Proto-Germanic *bōkiją. The word goes back to Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos (“beech”), which is also the source of Latin fāgus, Ancient Greek φηγός (phēgós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bøːˀɣ/, [ˈb̥øˀj]

Noun

bøg c (singular definite bøgen, plural indefinite bøge)

1. beech (a tree of the genus Fagus)

Declension

Declension of bøg

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bøg	bøgen	bøge	bøgene
genitive	bøgs	bøgens	bøges	bøgenes

Synonyms

• bøgetræ

Further reading

• “bøg” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Swedish bög.

Noun

bøg m

1. (slightly colloquial, sometimes derogatory) a gay man; gay, fag, queer, poof