bøg

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bog"

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
  • IPA(key): /bøːˀɣ/, [ˈb̥øˀj]

Noun

bøg c (singular definite bøgen, plural indefinite bøge)

  1. beech (a tree of the genus Fagus)

Declension
Declension of bøg
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bøg bøgen bøge bøgene
genitive bøgs bøgens bøges bøgenes

Synonyms

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Swedish bög.

Noun

bøg m

  1. (slightly colloquial, sometimes derogatory) a gay man; gay, fag, queer, poof
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