beuken

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Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch boken, bueken, perhaps related to pochen (“brag”), evolving from "defy" into "knock."[1]

Verb

beuken

  1. (transitive) to ram, to beat, to knock
Conjugation
Conjugation of beuken (weak)
infinitive beuken
past singular beukte
past participle gebeukt
infinitive beuken
gerund beuken n
present tense past tense
1st person singular beuk beukte
2nd person sing. (jij) beukt, beuk2 beukte
2nd person sing. (u) beukt beukte
2nd person sing. (gij) beukt beukte
3rd person singular beukt beukte
plural beuken beukten
subjunctive sing.1 beuke beukte
subjunctive plur.1 beuken beukten
imperative sing. beuk
imperative plur.1 beukt
participles beukend gebeukt
1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Petjo: beuken

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch boekijn. Equivalent to beuk (“beech”) +‎ -en.

Adjective

beuken (not comparable)

  1. beechen (made of beech wood)
Declension
Declension of beuken
uninflected beuken
inflected beuken
comparative —
positive
predicative/adverbial
indefinite m./f. sing. beuken
n. sing. beuken
plural beuken
definite beuken
partitive

Etymology 3

Noun

beuken

  1. plural of beuk

References

  1. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “boken”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
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