boc

See also: BOC, BoC, bòc, BÖC, bọc, boç, boć, Boć, and bŏć

Catalan

Etymology 1

Pre-Roman, possibly from Old High German boc, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈbok]

Noun

boc m (plural bocs)

1. buck (male goat)

   Synonym: cabró

Derived terms

• boc expiatori
• boquet

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Bock.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈbɔk]

Noun

boc m (plural bocs)

1. pint glass, half-liter jug

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔk/

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Noun

boc m (plural bocs)

1. (Norman dialect) type of horse-drawn carriage

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish boc (“he-goat”) (compare modern poc), probably cognate with Old English bucca.

Noun

boc m (genitive singular boic, nominative plural boic)

1. buck, playboy

Declension

Declension of boc

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative boc boic Vocative a bhoic a bhoca Genitive boic boc Dative boc boic

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an boc na boic Genitive an bhoic na mboc Dative leis an mboc don bhoc leis na boic

Derived terms

• boc mór
• boc seó

Etymology 2

Compare poc (“butt (as from a goat), hurling-stroke”).

Noun

boc m (genitive singular boic)

1. bounce (of ball)

Declension

Declension of boc

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative boc Vocative a bhoic Genitive boic Dative boc

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an boc Genitive an bhoic Dative leis an mboc don bhoc

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
boc	bhoc	mboc
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch buc

Noun

boc m

1. buck, male goat

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• buc

Descendants

• Dutch: bok (see there for further descendants)
• Limburgish: bók
• West Flemish: buk

Further reading

• “boc”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “buc (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page buc

Middle English

Noun

boc

1. Alternative form of bok

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boːk/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *bōks, whence also Old Frisian bōk (West Frisian boek), Old Saxon bōk (Low German Book), Dutch boek, Old High German buoh (German Buch), Old Norse bók (Danish bog, Norwegian bok), Swedish bok), Gothic 𐌱𐍉𐌺𐌰 (bōka). The Germanic root is often taken to be related to the word for beech, the wood of rune-tablets.

Noun

bōc f

1. book

Declension

Declension of boc (strong consonant stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	bōc	bēċ
accusative	bōc	bēċ
genitive	bēċ, bōce	bōca
dative	bēċ	bōcum

Derived terms

Derived terms

• ǣbōc (“lawbook”)
• bōchūs (“library”)
• bōclīċ (“booklike, bookly”)
• bōcstæf (“letter”)
• dōmbōc (“lawbook”)
• rīmbōc (“calendar”)
• ġerīmbōc (“calendar”)
• handbōc (“handbook, manual”)
• landbōc (“charter”)
• lǣcebōc (“medicine/recipe book”)
• mæssebōc (“missal”)
• nambōc (“register”)
• *wordbōc (“dictionary”)

Descendants

• Middle English: bok, boc, boke, book, booke, buk, buke
  • English: book (see there for further descendants)
  • Geordie English: buik, beuk
  • Scots: buik, beuk, buke, beuck
  • Yola: buke

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *bōkō.

Noun

bōc f

1. beech

   Synonyms: bōctrēow, bēċe

Declension

Declension of boc (strong ō-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	bōc	bōca, bōce
accusative	bōce	bōca, bōce
genitive	bōce	bōca
dative	bōce	bōcum

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *bukk, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz, whence also Old English buc, Old Norse bukkr; from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- (“ram”).

Noun

boc m

1. buck (male deer)

Descendants

• German: Bock

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• bocc

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *bukkos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bok]

Noun

boc m (genitive buic, nominative plural buic)

1. he-goat
   • c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 110c

     Ba bés leusom do·bertis dá boc leu dochum tempuil, ⁊ no·léicthe indala n‑ái fon díthrub co pecad in popuil, ⁊ do·bertis maldachta foir, ⁊ n⟨o⟩·oircthe didiu and ó popul tar cenn a pecthae ind aile.

     It was a custom with them that two he-goats were brought by them to the temple, and one of the two of them was let go to the wilderness with the sin of the people, and curses were put upon him, and thereupon the other was slain there by the people for their sins.

Declension

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	boc, bocc	bocL, bocc	buic(c)L
Vocative	buic(c)	bocL, bocc	buccuH
Accusative	bocN, bocc	bocL, bocc	buccuH
Genitive	buic(c)L	boc, bocc	bocN, bocc
Dative	buc(c)L	bocaib	bocaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: boc
• Scottish Gaelic: boc

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
boc	boc pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/	mboc
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 boc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Saxon

Noun

boc f

1. Alternative spelling of bok

Romanian

Etymology

Unknown.

Noun

boc n (plural bocuri)

1. sound of a hammer

Declension

Declension of boc

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) boc	bocul	(niște) bocuri	bocurile
genitive/dative	(unui) boc	bocului	(unor) bocuri	bocurilor
vocative	bocule		bocurilor

References

• boc in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔxk/

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish boc, from Old Irish boc, poc(c) (“he-goat”), from Proto-Celtic *bukkos.

Noun

boc m (genitive singular buic, plural buic)

1. buck, roebuck
2. billygoat, male goat

Derived terms

• boc glas (“large dogfish; shark”)
• boc-Bealltainn (“wild or unmanageable entire horse”)
• boc-caol, boc-earba, boc-ruadh, boc-seang, fear-boc (“roebuck”)
• boc-cluigeineach (“bell-wether”)
• boc-dheamhan (“satyr”)
• boc-dubh Innseanach (“Indian blackbuck”)
• boc-gobhair, boc-goibhre (“he-goat, billy goat”)
• boc-goibhre (“he-goat”)
• boc-maighich (“buck-hare”)
• boc-roin (“prawn; shrimp”)
• boc-saic (“snipe”)
• bocan (“small buck”)
• laos-boc (“castrated goat, wether goat”)

 

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

boc (past bhoc, future bocaidh, verbal noun bocadh, past participle bocte)

1. bounce, leap/jump (up and down), skip
2. prance
3. flutter

Derived terms

• boc-thonn (“breaker (wave)”)

Noun

boc m

1. deceit, fraud
2. blow, box, stroke

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “boc”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN