bosk

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English bosk, busk, variants of bush (“grove, wood; thicket, underbrush; bush; branch of a shrub or tree”), from Old English *busc (attested only in place names), likely from Anglo-Latin bosca (“firewood”), from Late Latin busca, buscus, boscus (“wood; woodland”), from Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, grow, appear”). The English word is cognate with Dalmatian buasc (“forest; wood”), French bois (“wood (material); wood, woodland”), Italian bosco (“wood (wooded area)”), Sicilian voscu (“wood”), Middle Dutch bosch, busch (modern Dutch bos (“forest; wood”)), Norwegian busk (“bush, shrub”); Occitan boscs, Old High German busk (“bush”) (Middle High German busch, bosch, modern German Busch (“bush, shrub; brush, scrub”)), Portuguese bosque (“grove”), Spanish bosque (“forest”), West Frisian bosk (“forest”). Doublet of bush. Alternatively, the modern word may be a back-formation from bosky (“having abundant bushes, shrubs, or trees”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɒsk/ (General American) IPA(key): /bɑsk/ Rhymes: -ɒsk, -ɑsk === Noun === bosk (plural bosks) (obsolete except dialectal) A bush. (archaic) A thicket; a small wood. Synonyms: copse, grove ==== Alternative forms ==== bosque (rare) ==== Derived terms ==== bosky embosk, imbosk ==== Related terms ==== boscage, bocage ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== Thesaurus:forest === References === === Anagrams === Boks, KBOs, kobs == Albanian == === Noun === bosk m hornless goat ==== Synonyms ==== shyt == Maltese == === Etymology === Borrowed from Sicilian voscu or Italian bosco. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbɔsk/ Rhymes: -ɔsk === Noun === bosk m (plural boskijiet) wood, forest Synonyms: masġar, foresta ==== Related terms ==== == West Frisian == === Etymology === From Old Frisian bosk, from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbosk/ === Noun === bosk n (plural bosken, diminutive boskje) forest Synonym: wâld ==== Derived terms ==== boskwachter ==== Further reading ==== “bosk”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011 === Noun === bosk c (plural bosken, diminutive boskje) bundle bush, thicket ==== Further reading ==== “bosk”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011