bouais
Norman
Alternative forms
- bwee (Sark)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French bois, from Early Medieval Latin boscus, borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.
Pronunciation
Audio (Jersey): (file)
Noun
bouais m (plural bouais)
- wood
- 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore[1], page 516:
- I' n'y a bouais dont nou n'fait buche.
- There is no wood but what will serve for firing.
- (Jersey) tree
Derived terms
- blianc-bouais (“abele, white poplar”)
- bouais d'coing (“quince tree”)
- bouais d'liet (“bedstead”)
- bouais'sie (“copse”)
- cllôture d'bouais (“fence”)
- p'liche dé bouais (“bark”)
- tchulyi en bouais (“wooden spoon”)
- trie d'bouais (“woodlouse”)
- vèrt-bouais (“spindle tree”)
- vipéthe à bouais (“goat moth”)