different between bisk vs bosk

English

Noun

bisk (plural bisks)

1. (sports) Alternative form of bisque (“extra turn”)
2. Alternative form of bisque (“kind of soup”)

See also

• wheat bisk

Anagrams

• KIBS

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *beid-ska, Proto-Indo-European *b?eyd- (“to split”). Compare Ancient Greek ???????? (pheídomai), Sanskrit ???? (bhid, “to break”), Latin findo (“split”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (beitan).

Noun

bisk m

1. small branch, twig

Related terms

• degë

English

Etymology

From Middle English bosk, busk, variants of bush (“grove, wood; thicket, underbrush; bush; branch of a shrub or tree”), from Old English busc (attested only in place names), likely from Anglo-Latin bosca (“firewood”), from Late Latin busca, buscus, boscus (“wood; woodland”), from Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *b?uH- (“to become, grow, appear”).

The English word is cognate with Dalmatian buasc (“forest; wood”), French bois (“wood (material); wood, woodland”), Italian bosco (“wood (wooded area)”), Middle Dutch bosch, busch (modern Dutch bos (“forest; wood”)), Norwegian busk (“bush, shrub”); Occitan boscs, Old High German busk (“bush”) (Middle High German busch, bosch, modern German Busch (“bush, shrub; brush, scrub”)), Portuguese bosque (“grove”), Spanish bosque (“forest”), West Frisian bosk (“forest”).

Alternatively, the modern word may be a back-formation from bosky (“having abundant bushes, shrubs, or trees”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b?sk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b?sk/

Noun

bosk (plural bosks)

1. (obsolete except dialectal) A bush.
2. (archaic) A thicket; a small wood.

   Synonyms: copse, grove

Alternative forms

• bosque (rare)

Derived terms

• bosky
• embosk, imbosk

Related terms

• boscage, bocage

Translations

See also

• Thesaurus:forest

References

Anagrams

• Boks, KBOs, kobs

Albanian

Noun

bosk m

1. hornless goat

Synonyms

• shyt

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian bosk, from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

Noun

bosk n (plural bosken, diminutive boskje)

1. forest

   Synonym: wâld

Derived terms

• boskwachter

Further reading

• “bosk”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Noun

bosk c (plural bosken, diminutive boskje)

1. bundle
2. bush, thicket

Further reading

• “bosk”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011