boec

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch buok, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.

Noun

boec m or n

  1. book
  2. book, tome, volume (of a larger work)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants
  • Dutch: boek (see there for further descendants)
  • Limburgish: book
  • → Middle French: boucquain (via diminutive forms *boeckin, *boeckijn)

Further reading
  • “boec (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “boec (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
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