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Danish
Etymology
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
Noun
bøg c (singular definite bøgen, plural indefinite bøge)
- beech (a tree of the genus Fagus)
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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Swedish bög.
Noun
bøg m
- (slightly colloquial, sometimes derogatory) a gay man; gay, fag, queer, poof