The story
- Old English · inherited frombōcfell“parchment, vellum”
- Middle English · inherited frombocfel“parchment”
- English todaybookfell
From Middle English bocfel (“parchment”), from Old English bōcfell (“parchment, vellum”), equivalent to book + fell. Cognate with Old High German buohfel, puohfell (“parchment”), Middle High German buohvël (“parchment”), Old Norse bókfell (“parchment”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.