| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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Appendix I
Indo-European Roots |
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| ENTRY: | bh go- |
| DEFINITION: | Beech tree. 1a. book, from Old English b c, written document, composition; b. buckwheat, from Middle Dutch boek, beech; c. Bokmål, from Norwegian bok, book. a–c all from Germanic *bk, beech, also “beech staff for carving runes on” (an early Germanic writing device). 2. beech, from Old English b ce, beech, from Germanic *bkjn-. (Pokorny bhgó-s 107.) |
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