bosch

• Rhymes: -ɔs
• IPA^(key): /bɔs/

bosch

1. Obsolete spelling of bos.

From Late Latin busca, *buscus or boscus, from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (whence also came Old High German busk and English bush).

bosch m (plural bòsc)

1. (Gherdëina) wood, forest

   Se pierder tl bosch.

   To get lost in the wood.

   Bosch da odla

   Coniferous forest

Akin to Italian bosco, of West Germanic origin. Compare English bush.

bosch

1. wood, forest

From Old Dutch *busc, from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

bosch m or n

1. forest, wood

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• busch

• Dutch: bos, bosch (obsolete)
  • Afrikaans: bos
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: bosi
  • Negerhollands: boesch, bosch
  • → Aukan: bosu
  • → Caribbean Javanese: bos (bunch, bundle)
  • → English: bush
    • → Dutch: bush, bushbush
  • →? Guyanese Creole English: bush
  • → Indonesian: bos
  • → Papiamentu: bòshi, bosji (from the diminutive)
  • → Sranan Tongo: bosu (bunch, bundle)
  • → Sranan Tongo: busi (forest)
    • → Caribbean Javanese: busi
    • → Kwinti: busi
    • → Ndyuka-Trio Pidgin: busi
• Limburgish: bósj
• West Flemish: bus

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

Vulgar Latin boscus, from Germanic *busk

bosch

1. wood

   na tàula `d bòsch

   a table of wood

2. timber