bouk – English noun declension

Noun: bouk

Singular	bouk
Plural	bouks

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like bouk

soldier's woundwort, Nicosian, whopper, greypate, tactile sign language, chronotrope, Rosie Lee, dissentient, photoinactivator, sulphonediimine, coastal waterfall, residuary devise, bituminization, nitrosonaphthol, smṛiti, geosphere, backscreen, mensuralist, flocculate, flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. From Middle English bouk, from Old English būc (“belly, stomach, pitcher”), from Proto-West Germanic *būk, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, body”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (“to blow, swell”). Doublet of bucket.
2. Cognate with Scots bouk, bowk, buik (“body, carcass”), Dutch buik (“belly”), German Bauch (“belly”), Swedish buk (“belly, abdomen”), Norwegian Bokmål buk (“belly”), Icelandic búkur (“torso”).
3. For the phonetic development, compare puck, suck. See: Middle English Nouns 'bouk', Old English Nouns 'būc', Dutch Nouns 'buik', German Nouns 'Bauch', Swedish Nouns 'buk', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'buk', Icelandic Nouns 'búkur'.