boek

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See also: bök

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch boek, from Middle Dutch boec, from Old Dutch buoc, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /buk/, [1]
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Noun

boek (plural boeke, diminutive boekie)

  1. book

References

  1. ^ 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch boec, from Old Dutch buoc, from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.

Compare West Frisian boek, Low German Book, German Buch, English book, Danish bog.

Noun

boek n (plural boeken, diminutive boekje n or boekske n) (Belgium, non-standard: m)

  1. book
  2. (obsolete, Holland) omasum
    Synonyms: boekmaag, boekpens
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: boek
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: buku
  • Negerhollands: boek, bok, buki
  • Petjo: boek
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: buk
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: buk
  • → Caribbean Javanese: buku
  • → Javanese: ꦧꦸꦏꦸ (buku)
  • → Malay: buku
  • → Papiamentu: buki, boeki (from the diminutive)
  • → Sranan Tongo: buku

Etymology 2

Verb

boek

  1. inflection of boeken:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

Anagrams

Javanese

Noun

boek

  1. Dated spelling of buk.

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian bōk, from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.

Pronunciation

Noun

boek n (plural boeken, diminutive boekje)

  1. book

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “boek (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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