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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/bōk

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 *bōks.

Noun

*bōk f[1]

  1. inscribed billet, letter
  2. book

Inflection
Consonant stem
Singular
Nominative *bōk
Genitive *bōki
Singular Plural
Nominative *bōk *bōki
Accusative *bōku *bōki
Genitive *bōki *bōkō
Dative *bōki *bōkum
Instrumental *bōki *bōkum

Derived terms

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
    • North Frisian:
      Föhr: buk
      Helgoland: Buk
      Mooring: bök
      Sylt: Bok
    • Saterland Frisian: Bouk
    • West Frisian: boek
  • Old Saxon: bōk
    • Middle Low German: bôk, buk
      • Low German:
        Dutch Low Saxon: book
        German Low German: Book
      • Plautdietsch: Buak
  • Old Dutch: buok
    • Middle Dutch: boec
      • Dutch: boek (see there for further descendants)
      • Limburgish: book
      • → Middle French: boucquain (via diminutive forms *boeckin, *boeckijn)
  • Old High German: buoh, puoh

References
  1. Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 286: “nom. pl. *bōkiz ‘inscribed billets’ [...] > PWGmc *bōki”
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