bosch

• Rhymes: -ɔs
• IPA^(key): /bɔs/

bosch n (plural bosschen, diminutive boschje n)

1. obsolete spelling of bos

From Late Latin busca, *buscus or boscus, from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (whence also came Old High German busk and English bush).

bosch m (plural bòsc)

1. (Gherdëina) wood, forest

   se pierder tl bosch

   to get lost in the wood

   bosch da odla

   coniferous forest

Akin to Italian bosco, of West Germanic origin. Compare English bush.

bosch

1. wood, forest

From Old Dutch *busc.

• IPA^(key): /bɔsx/

bosch m or n

1. forest, wood

• busch

• Dutch: bos, bosch (obsolete)
  • Afrikaans: bos
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: bosi
  • Negerhollands: boesch, bosch
  • → Aukan: bosu
  • → Caribbean Javanese: bos (bunch, bundle)
  • → English: bush
    • → Dutch: bush, bushbush
  • →? Guyanese Creole English: bush
  • → Indonesian: bos
  • → Papiamentu: bòshi, bosji (from the diminutive)
  • → Sranan Tongo: bosu (bunch, bundle)
  • → Sranan Tongo: busi (forest)
    • → Caribbean Javanese: busi
    • → Kwinti: busi
    • → Ndyuka-Trio Pidgin: busi
• Limburgish: bósj
• West Flemish: bus

• “bosc”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “bosch”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin boscus, borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

bosch

1. wood

   na tàula `d bòsch

   a table of wood

2. timber