boc

Pre-Roman, possibly from Old High German boc, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ-.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbok]

boc m (plural bocs)

1. buck, he-goat, male goat

   Synonym: cabró

• boc expiatori
• boquet

Borrowed from German Bock.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbɔk]

boc m (plural bocs)

1. pint glass, half-liter jug

• IPA^(key): /bɔk/

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boc m (plural bocs)

1. (Norman dialect) type of horse-drawn carriage

Inherited from Old Irish boc (“he-goat”) (compare modern poc), probably cognate with Old English bucca.

boc m (genitive singular boic, nominative plural boic)

1. buck, playboy

• boc mór
• boc seó

Compare poc (“butt (as from a goat), hurling-stroke”).

boc m (genitive singular boic)

1. bounce (of ball)

Inherited from Old Dutch buc

boc m

1. buck, billygoat, he-goat, male goat

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• buc

• Dutch: bok (see there for further descendants)
• Limburgish: bók
• West Flemish: buk

• “boc”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “buc (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page buc

boc

1. Alternative form of bok

• IPA^(key): /boːk/

Inherited from Proto-Germanic *bōks, whence also Old Frisian bōk (West Frisian boek), Old Saxon bōk (Low German Book), Dutch boek, Old High German buoh (German Buch), Old Norse bók (Danish bog, Norwegian bok), Swedish bok), Gothic 𐌱𐍉𐌺𐌰 (bōka). The Germanic root is often taken to be related to the word for beech, the wood of rune-tablets.

bōc f

1. book
   • c. 995, Ælfric, Excerptiones de Arte Grammatica Anglice

     Littera is stæf on englisċ and is sē lǣsta dǣl on bōcum and untōdǣledlīċ.

     Littera means letter in [Old] English and is the indivisible smallest part of books.

• Middle English: bok, boc, boke, book, booke, buk, buke
  • English: book (see there for further descendants)
  • Geordie English: buik, beuk
  • Scots: buik, beuk, buke, beuck
  • Yola: buke

Inherited from Proto-Germanic *bōkō.

bōc f

1. beech

   Synonyms: bōctrēow, bēċe

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *bukk, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz, whence also Old English buc, Old Norse bukkr; from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- (“ram”).

boc m

1. buck, male deer

• German: Bock

• bocc

Inherited from Proto-Celtic *bukkos.

• IPA^(key): [bok]

boc m (genitive buic, nominative plural buic)

1. he-goat
   • c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 110c

     Ba bés leusom do·bertis dá boc leu dochum tempuil, ⁊ no·léicthe indala n‑ái fon díthrub co pecad in popuil, ⁊ do·bertis maldachta foir, ⁊ n⟨o⟩·oircthe didiu and ó popul tar cenn a pecthae ind aile.

     It was a custom with them that two he-goats were brought by them to the temple, and one of the two of them was let go to the wilderness with the sin of the people, and curses were put upon him, and thereupon the other was slain there by the people for their sins.

• Irish: boc
• Scottish Gaelic: boc

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 boc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

boc f

1. Alternative spelling of bok

Unknown.

boc n (plural bocuri)

1. sound of a hammer

• boc in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /pɔxk/

Inherited from Middle Irish boc, from Old Irish boc, poc(c) (“he-goat”), from Proto-Celtic *bukkos.

boc m (genitive singular buic, plural buic)

1. buck, roebuck
2. billygoat, he-goat, male goat

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

boc (past bhoc, future bocaidh, verbal noun bocadh, past participle bocte)

1. bounce, leap / jump (up and down), skip
2. prance
3. flutter

• boc-thonn (“breaker (wave)”)

boc m

1. deceit, fraud
2. blow, box, stroke

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “boc”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN