bøg

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Danish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse bók (beech), from Proto-Germanic *bōkō, cognate with English beech, German Buche. The Danish form has the vowel from the old collective noun bøge (in place names), from Proto-Germanic *bōkiją. The word goes back to Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos (beech), which is also the source of Latin fāgus, Ancient Greek φηγός (phēgós).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /bøːˀɣ/, [ˈb̥øˀj]

Noun[edit]

bøg c (singular definite bøgen, plural indefinite bøge)

  1. beech (a tree of the genus Fagus)

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Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Swedish bög.

Noun[edit]

bøg m

  1. (slightly colloquial, sometimes derogatory) a gay man; gay, fag, queer, poof