boc

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Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

Noun

boc m (plural bocs)

  1. buck, he-goat, male goat
    Synonym: cabró
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Bock.

Pronunciation

Noun

boc m (plural bocs)

  1. pint glass, half-liter jug

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔk/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

boc m (plural bocs)

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

Irish

Etymology 1

Inherited 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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

boc m (genitive singular boic)

  1. bounce (of ball)
Declension

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

Inherited from Old Dutch buc

Noun

boc m

  1. buck, billygoat, he-goat, male goat

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

Descendants

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

Further reading

Middle English

Noun

boc

  1. Alternative form of bok

Old English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited 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
    • c. 995, Ælfric, Excerptiones de Arte Grammatica Anglice
      Littera is stæf on englisċ and is sē lǣsta dǣl on bōcum and untōdǣledlīċ.
      Littera means letter in English and is the indivisible smallest part of books.
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Germanic *bōkō.

Noun

bōc f

  1. beech
    Synonyms: bōctrēow, bēċe
Declension

Old High German

Etymology

Inherited 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

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Celtic *bukkos.

Pronunciation

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 /β(ʲ)-/
mboc
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Old Saxon

Noun

boc f

  1. Alternative spelling of bok

Romanian

Etymology

Unknown.

Noun

boc n (plural bocuri)

  1. sound of a hammer

Declension

References

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

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited 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, he-goat, male goat
Derived terms

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

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]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN