bok
Afrikaans
noun
Definitions
- goat
- antelope, buck
- (slang) lover term of affection
- vaulting horse
- blunder
Etymology
Derived from Dutch, Flemish bok (buck, billy, male goat, goat, sawhorse, antelope, billy goat) inherited from Middle Dutch boc inherited from Old Dutch buc inherited from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz (male deer, buck).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*bukkaz
Gloss
male deer, buck
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bok English
- bouk English
- buckwagon English
- rhebok English
- blesbok Dutch, Flemish
- bok Dutch, Flemish
- bokkebaard Dutch, Flemish
- bokken Dutch, Flemish
- bokkenbaard Dutch, Flemish
- bokkensprong Dutch, Flemish
- bokkesprong Dutch, Flemish
- boksbaard Dutch, Flemish
- boktor Dutch, Flemish
- geitenbok Dutch, Flemish
- hertenbok Dutch, Flemish
- kerstbok Dutch, Flemish
- opbokken Dutch, Flemish
- reebok Dutch, Flemish
- schachtbok Dutch, Flemish
- springbok Dutch, Flemish
- zaagbok Dutch, Flemish
- zondebok Dutch, Flemish
- *bhuǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰelǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰugkó-, *bʰuǵno-, *bʰukkos Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰuǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *bukkaz Proto-Germanic
- buc Old English
- bucc Old English
- būc Old English
- bouk Middle English
- bokkr, bukkr Old Norse
- bukkr Old Norse
- bok Cebuano
- boc Middle Dutch
- buc Middle Dutch
- boc Old High German
- ree Afrikaans
- reebok Afrikaans
- voor Afrikaans
- voorbok Afrikaans
- *bukk gmw-pro
- buc Old Dutch
- *bukk Frankish
- *buk Old Frisian
- bote Old Spanish
- beccu Sicilian
- ibhokhwe Xhosa
- bokoboko Sranan Tongo
- *bukkos Gaulish