Etymology

buky

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Old Church Slavonic боукꙑ ← Proto-Slavic *buky ← Proto-West Germanic *bōku
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*bōku
  2. Proto-Slavic · derived from*buky
  3. Old Church Slavonic · borrowed fromбоукꙑ
  4. English todaybuky

From Old Church Slavonic боукꙑ (buky), from Proto-Slavic *buky, from Proto-West Germanic *bōku. Doublet of beech.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.