Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/bōkijā

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-Germanic

Etymology

From an earlier *bōkō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos (“beech”). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek φηγός (phēgós, “oak”), Latin fāgus (“beech”) and Armenian բոխի (boxi, “hornbeam”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔː.ki.jɔ̃ː/

Noun

*bōkijā f

1. beech

Inflection

consonant stemDeclension of *bōkijā (consonant stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*bōkijā	*bōkijiz
vocative	*bōkij	*bōkijiz
accusative	*bōkijų	*bōkijunz
genitive	*bōkijiz	*bōkijǫ̂
dative	*bōkiji	*bōkijumaz
instrumental	*bōkijē	*bōkijumiz

Derived terms

• *bōkīnaz

See also

• *bōks
• *bōkō

Descendants

• Old English: bēċe, bœ̄ċe — Anglian
  • Middle English: beche
    • English: beech
    • Scots: beech
• Old Frisian: bōk
  • Saterland Frisian: Bouke
  • West Frisian: boek, boeke (in compounds)
• Old Saxon: bōkia
  • Middle Low German: böke
    • German Low German: Böke, Böök
    • Low German: Böke
    • → Dutch: beuk
      • Afrikaans: beuk
• Old Dutch: *buoka
  • Middle Dutch: boeke
    • Dutch: beuk
      • Afrikaans: beuk
• Old High German: (weak n-stem) buohha, *buohhia, buocha
  • Middle High German: buoche (possibly conflated with descendant from *bōkō)
    • Alemannic German: Buech
    • German: Buche, Büche
    • Luxembourgish: Bich
    • Vilamovian: bih́łiḱ
• → Proto-Slavic: *buky (see there for further descendants)