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

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, bœ̄c
- Middle English: bok, boc, boke, book, booke, buk, buke
  - English: book (see there for further descendants)
    - Northumbrian: 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