Noun: boc
Gender:
Nominative
| Singular | bōc |
| Plural | bēċ; bōca; bōce |
Genitive
| Singular | bēċ; bōce |
| Plural | bōca |
Dative
| Singular | bēċ; bōce |
| Plural | bōcum |
Accusative
| Singular | bōc; bōce |
| Plural | bēċ; bōca; bōce |
Sample Sentences
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c. 995, Ælfric, Excerptiones de Arte Grammatica Anglice
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Littera is stæf on englisċ and is sē lǣsta dǣl on bōcum and untōdǣledlīċ. (Littera means letter in English and is the indivisible and smallest part of books.)
Nouns inflected like boc
boc,
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks, whence also Old Frisian bōk (West Frisian boek), Old Saxon bōk (Low German Book), Dutch boek, Old High German buoh (German Buch), Old Norse bók (Danish bog, Norwegian bok), Swedish bok), Gothic 𐌱𐍉𐌺𐌰 (bōka). The Germanic root is often taken to be related to the word for beech, the wood of rune-tablets. See: Dutch Nouns '
boek', German Nouns '
Buch', Old Norse Nouns '
bók', Danish Nouns '
bog', Swedish Nouns '
bok', Gothic Nouns '
𐌱𐍉𐌺𐌰'.
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