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bøg.

beech (a tree of the genus Fagus)

3 characters1 syllables approx.Dansk language

Meaning & usage

noun/bøːˀɣ/[ˈb̥øˀj]
  1. beech (a tree of the genus Fagus)

    common-gender
Where this word comes from

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).

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