bocstaff
Middle English
/boːkstaf/
noun
Definitions
- letter, written character
Etymology
Inherited from Old English bōcstæf (letter, written symbol, written character) inherited from Proto-Germanic *bōkastabaz (written character, beechwood staff).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*bōkastabaz
Gloss
written character, beechwood staff
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- book English
- bookstaff English
- bookstave English
- staff English
- stave English
- puustavi Finnish
- Anfangsbuchstabe German
- Blockbuchstabe German
- Buch German
- Buchstabe German
- Buchstabenkurzwort German
- Buchstabensalat German
- Buchstabenschrift German
- Buchstabensuppe German
- Buchstabenwort German
- Druckbuchstabe German
- Kursivbuchstabe German
- Stab German
- Zierbuchstabe German
- buchstabengetreu German
- buchstabieren German
- buchstäblich German
- *stebʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *bōkastabaz Proto-Germanic
- begynnelsebokstav Swedish
- bokstav Swedish
- bokstavlig Swedish
- bokstavskod Swedish
- bocstæf Old English
- bōcstæf Old English
- bókstafr Old Norse
- bogstav Danish
- bók Icelandic
- bókstafur Icelandic
- stafur Icelandic
- buohstab Old High German
- bókstavarað Faroese
- bókstavur Faroese
- buochstabe Middle High German
- bokstaver, bōkstaver Old Swedish