different between bolk vs bosk

English

Alternative forms

• boke, bock
• (Scottish) boak, bouk, bowk

Etymology

From Middle English bolken, balken (“to vomit, overflow”), from Old English bealcian (“to belch, utter, bring up, sputter out, pour out, give forth, emit, come forth”), from Proto-Germanic *balk?n?, *belkan? (“to belch”). Cognate with Dutch balken & bulken (“to bellow”), German bölken (“to roar”). See also belch.

Verb

bolk (third-person singular simple present bolks, present participle bolking, simple past and past participle bolked)

1. (intransitive) To belch.
2. (intransitive) To vomit; retch.
3. (intransitive) To heave.
4. (intransitive) To gush out.
5. (transitive) To belch out; give vent to; ejaculate.

Related terms

• boak

Anagrams

• Kolb

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bolc. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?lk/
• Hyphenation: bolk
• Rhymes: -?lk

Noun

bolk m (plural bolken)

1. pouting, bib, Trisopterus luscus

   Synonyms: steenbolk, steenwijting

2. (obsolete) whiting or cod

   Synonyms: gadde, kabeljauw, wijting

Derived terms

• steenbolk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse b?lkr, balkr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?lk/

Noun

bolk m (definite singular bolken, indefinite plural bolkar, definite plural bolkane)

1. a part

References

• “bolk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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