*bōkstabaz

Runic: ᛒᛟᚲᛊᛏᚨᛒᚨᛉ Pronunciation: /ˈbɔːk.ˌstɑ.βɑz/

noun · masculine · a-stem

Meanings

From *bōks (‘book’) + *stabaz (‘staff, stick; a letter of the alphabet’).

*bōkstab, *bōkstabō (Proto-West Germanic)
- buocstaf, *buocstavo (Old Dutch)
  - boecstaf, boecstave, boecstaef (Middle Dutch)
    - boekstaaf (Dutch)
      - boekstaaf (Afrikaans)
*bōkstab, *bōkstabō (Proto-West Germanic)
- bōcstæf (Old English)
  - bocstaff, bookstave (Middle English)
    - bookstaff, bookstave (English)
*bōkstab, *bōkstabō (Proto-West Germanic)
- *bōkstaf, *bōkstef (Old Frisian)
  - Boukstäf (Saterland Frisian)
*bōkstab, *bōkstabō (Proto-West Germanic)
- buohstab, *buohstabo (Old High German)
  - buochstap, buochstabe (Middle High German)
    - Buschtaf (Luxembourgish)
    - בוכשטאַב (bukhshtab) (Yiddish)
*bōkstab, *bōkstabō (Proto-West Germanic)
- buohstab, *buohstabo (Old High German)
  - buochstap, buochstabe (Middle High German)
    - Buchstab, Buchstabe (German)
      - Buukstoave (Saterland Frisian)
*bōkstab, *bōkstabō (Proto-West Germanic)
- bōkstaf, bōkstabo (Old Saxon)
  - bôkstaf, *bôkstāve (Middle Low German)
    - Bookstaav (Low German)
    - Buakstow (Plautdietsch)
bókstafr (Old Norse)
- bogstav (Danish)
- bókstavur (Faroese)
- bokstav (Gutnish)
- bókstafur (Icelandic)
- bokstav (Norwegian Bokmål)
- bokstav (Norwegian Nynorsk)
bókstafr (Old Norse)
- bōkstaver (Old Swedish)
  - bokstav (Swedish)