boc

See also: BOC, BoC, bòc, BÖC, bọc, boç, and Boć

Catalan

Etymology

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

Noun

boc m (plural bocs)

  1. buck (male goat)

Synonyms

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bɔk/

Noun

boc m (plural bocs)

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

Irish

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish boc, poc, pocc (“he-goat”) (compare modern poc), from Old English bucca.

Noun

boc m (genitive singular boic, nominative plural boic)

  1. buck, playboy
Declension
Declension of boc

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative boc boic
Vocative a bhoic a bhoca
Genitive boic boc
Dative boc boic

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an boc na boic
Genitive an bhoic na mboc
Dative leis an mboc

don bhoc

 leis na boic
Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Noun

boc m (genitive singular boic)

  1. (of ball) bounce
Declension
Declension of boc

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative boc
Vocative a bhoic
Genitive boic
Dative boc

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an boc
Genitive an bhoic
Dative leis an mboc

don bhoc

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
boc bhoc mboc
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch buc, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz.

Noun

boc m

  1. buck, male goat

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

Descendants

Further reading
  • “boc”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • “buc (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Middle English

Noun

boc

  1. Alternative form of booke

Old English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /boːk/

Etymology 1

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.

Alternative forms
  • bœc

Noun

bōc f

  1. book

Declension
Declension of boc (strong consonant stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative bōc bēċ
accusative bōc bēċ
genitive bēċ, bōce bōca
dative bēċ bōcum

Derived terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *bōkō.

Noun

bōc f

  1. beech

Declension
Declension of boc (strong ō-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative bōc bōca, bōce
accusative bōce bōca, bōce
genitive bōce bōca
dative bōce bōcum

Synonyms

Old High German

Etymology

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

Noun

boc m

  1. buck (male deer)

Descendants

Old Saxon

Noun

boc f

  1. Alternative spelling of bok

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pɔxk/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish boc, poc(c) (“he-goat”).

Noun

boc m (genitive singular buic, plural buic)

  1. buck, roebuck
  2. billygoat, male goat
Derived terms
  • bocan (“small buck”)
  • boc-Bealltainn (“wild or unmanageable entire horse”)
  • boc-caol, boc-earba, boc-ruadh, boc-seang, fear-boc (“roebuck”)
  • boc-cluigeineach (“bell-wether”)
  • boc-dheamhan (“satyr”)
  • boc-dubh Innseanach (“Indian blackbuck”)
  • boc glas (“large dogfish; shark”)
  • boc-gobhair, boc-goibhre (“he-goat, billy goat”)
  • boc-goibhre (“he-goat”)
  • boc-maighich (“buck-hare”)
  • boc-roin (“prawn; shrimp”)
  • boc-saic (“snipe”)
  • laos-boc (“castrated goat, wether goat”)

Etymology 2

Verb

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

  1. bounce, leap/jump (up and down), skip
  2. prance
  3. flutter
Derived terms
  • boc-thonn (“breaker (wave)”)

Noun

boc m

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

References
  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
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