boc

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Catalan

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbok]

Noun

boc m (plural bocs)

1. buck, he-goat, male goat

   Synonym: cabró

Derived terms

• boc expiatori
• boquet

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Bock.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbɔk]

Noun

boc m (plural bocs)

1. pint glass, half-liter jug

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔk/

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

Derived terms

• boc mór
• boc seó

Etymology 2

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

Noun

boc m (genitive singular boic)

1. bounce (of ball)

Declension

Mutation

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

• buc

Descendants

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

Further reading

• “boc”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “buc (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page buc

Middle English

Noun

boc

1. Alternative form of bok

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boːk/

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

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Middle English: bok, boc, boke, book, booke, buk, buke
  • English: book (see there for further descendants)
  • Geordie English: buik, beuk
  • Scots: buik, beuk, buke, beuck
  • Yola: buke

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

• German: Bock

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• bocc

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Celtic *bukkos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bok]

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

Declension

Descendants

• Irish: boc
• Scottish Gaelic: boc

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 boc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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

• IPA^(key): /pɔxk/

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

• boc-thonn (“breaker (wave)”)

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]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN