boecweit
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Middle Dutch[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Calque of Middle Low German bôkwete (literally “beech wheat”) (so called because of its triangular seeds, which resemble the much larger seeds of the beech nut from the beech tree, and the fact that it is used like wheat)
Noun[edit]
boecweit m