Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/bōkijā

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From *bōku +‎ *-jā (agent suffix).

Noun

*bōkijā f

beech
Synonym: *bōku

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*bōkijā
Genitive	*bōkijōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*bōkijā	*bōkijōn
Accusative	*bōkijōn	*bōkijōn
Genitive	*bōkijōn	*bōkijōnō
Dative	*bōkijōn	bōkijōm, bōkijum
Instrumental	*bōkijōn	bōkijōm, bōkijum

Related terms

*bōk
*bōku

Derived terms

*bōkīn

Descendants

Old English: bēċe, bœ̄ċe — Anglian
- Middle English: beche
  - English: beech
  - Scots: beech
Old Frisian: bōk
- Saterland Frisian: Bouke
- West Frisian: boek, boeke (in compounds)
Old Saxon: bōkia
- Middle Low German: böke
  - German Low German: Böke, Böök
  - Low German: Böke
  - → Dutch: beuk
    - Afrikaans: beuk
Old Dutch: *buoka
- Middle Dutch: boeke
  - Dutch: beuk
    - Afrikaans: beuk
Old High German: buohha, *buohhia, buocha (weak n-stem)
- Middle High German: buoche (possibly conflated with descendant from *bōkō)
  - Alemannic German: Buech
  - German: Buche, Büche
  - Luxembourgish: Bich
  - Vilamovian: bih́łiḱ
→ Proto-Slavic: *buky (see there for further descendants)