bouais

Norman

Alternative forms

bwee (Sercquiais)

Etymology

From Old French bois, from Vulgar Latin boscus, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

Pronunciation

Audio (Jersey) (file)

Noun

bouais m (plural bouais)

wood
- 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎, page 516:
  I' n'y a bouais dont nou n'fait buche.
  There is no wood but what will serve for firing.
(Jersey) tree

Derived terms

blianc-bouais (“abele, white poplar”)
bouais d'coing (“quince tree”)
bouais d'liet (“bedstead”)
bouais'sie (“copse”)
cllôture d'bouais (“fence”)
p'liche dé bouais (“bark”)
tchulyi en bouais (“wooden spoon”)
trie d'bouais (“woodlouse”)
vèrt-bouais (“spindle tree”)
vipéthe à bouais (“goat moth”)

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