Masculino

beuk

(Inglés)

  1. (masculine) a beech, tree of the genus Fagus
  2. (masculine) common beech (Fagus sylvatica)

Frecuencia

C2
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/bøːk/
Etimología (Inglés)

In summary

From eastern Middle Dutch boke, boeke, from Old Dutch *buoka, from Proto-West Germanic *bōkijā. Western varieties of Dutch, including generally Standard Dutch, do not have umlaut of long vowels. The eastern variety with umlaut was probably adopted to avoid homonymy with boek.

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