bokwete

== Middle Low German == === Alternative forms === bōkweite === Etymology === böke (“beech”) +‎ wête (“wheat”), so called because of its triangular seeds, which resemble the much larger seeds of the beech nut from the beech tree, and the fact that it is used like wheat. The first element is from Old Saxon bōkia, from Proto-West Germanic *bōkijā; the second from Old Saxon hwēti, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaitī. === Noun === bôkwete m buckwheat ==== Descendants ==== → Danish: boghvede (calque) → Icelandic: bókhveiti → Norwegian Bokmål: bokhvete → Swedish: bovete → German: Buchweizen (calque) → Middle Dutch: boecweit, boecweite (calque)Dutch: boekweitAfrikaans: bokwietJersey Dutch: bukwāit→ English: buckwheat === References === Dr. Karl Schiller and Dr. August Lübben, 1875, Mittelniederdeutsches Wörterbuch volume 1 "bōkwēte" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelniederdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)