bouleau
French
Etymology
From Old French boul, bououl + -eau, from *betullus, from Latin betulla, diminutive of Gaulish *betua, from Proto-Celtic *betwiyos, *betuyā (“birch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet-. Compare Italian betulla, Catalan bedoll, Spanish abedul, Portuguese bétula, as well as Galician bídalo and bidueiro.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bu.lo/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Homophones: bouleaux, boulot, boulots
- Hyphenation: bou‧leau
Noun
bouleau m (plural bouleaux)
- birch tree
Further reading
- “bouleau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.