book

book · noun¹

1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂ǵosder.?
2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂g-der.?
3. Proto-Germanic*bōks
4. Proto-West Germanic*bōk
5. Old Englishbōc
6. Middle Englishbok
7. English todaybook

From Middle English bok, book, from Old English bōc, from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks. Bookmaker sense by clipping. Cognates Cognate with Scots beuk, buik, buke (“book”), Yola buke (“book”), North Frisian Bok, buk, bök (“book”), Saterland Frisian Bouk (“book”), West Frisian, Dutch boek (“book”), Alemannic German Buech (“book”), Bavarian Buach (“book”), Central Franconian Booch, Buch (“book”), German, Luxembourgish Buch (“book”), German Low German Book (“book”), Limburgish book, Bouk (“book”), Vilamovian büch (“book”), Yiddish בוך (bukh, “book”), Danish bog (“book”), Elfdalian buok (“book”), Faroese, Icelandic bók (“book”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish bok (“book”).

book · verb²

1. Old Englishbōcian
2. Middle Englishbooken
3. English todaybook

From Middle English booken, boken, from Old English bōcian, ġebōcian, from the noun (see above).

book · verb³

1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*bakaną“to bake”
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*bōk
3. Old English · inherited frombōc
4. Middle English · inherited frombook
5. English todaybook

From Middle English book, bok, from Old English bōc, from Proto-Germanic *bōk, first and third person singular indicative past tense of Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”).

Book · proper noun⁴

1. German · derived fromBuch
2. English todayBook

An Americanized form of German Buch, or alternatively a variant of Buck.

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