bøg

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).

• IPA^(key): /bøːˀɣ/, [ˈb̥øˀj]

bøg c (singular definite bøgen, plural indefinite bøge)

1. beech (a tree of the genus Fagus)

• bøgetræ

• “bøg” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Swedish bög.

bøg m

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