boec

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch buoc, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.

Noun

boec m or n

1. book
2. book, tome, volume (of a larger work)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: boek (see there for further descendants)
• Limburgish: book
• → Middle French: boucquain (via diminutive forms *boeckin, *boeckijn)
  • French: bouquin

Further reading

• “boec (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “boec (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I