bouk

• bouke

From Middle English bouk, from Old English būc (“belly, stomach, pitcher”), from Proto-West Germanic *būk, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, body”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (“to blow, swell”). Doublet of bucket.

Cognate with Scots bouk, bowk, buik (“body, carcass”), Dutch buik (“belly”), German Bauch (“belly”), Swedish buk (“belly, abdomen”), Norwegian Bokmål buk (“belly”), Icelandic búkur (“torso”).

For the phonetic development, compare puck, suck.

• IPA^(key): /baʊk/
• IPA^(key): /bəʊk/, /buːk/^[1] (UK dialectal)

bouk (plural bouks)

1. (UK dialectal or obsolete) The belly.
2. (UK dialectal) The trunk or torso of the body, hence the body itself.
3. (UK dialectal) The carcass of a slaughtered animal.

• Kubo, boku, buko

• (phonetics) IPA^(key): [pˠouk]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /pˠewik/
• Bender phonemes: {bȩwik}

bouk

1. alternative form of boub

• booke, book, buc, buk, boyke, bouke

From Old English būc, from Proto-West Germanic *būk, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz.

• IPA^(key): /buːk/

bouk (plural boukes or bouken)

1. belly, stomach
2. body (especially a corpse)
3. The main portion of a structure

• English: bouk (obsolete)
• Scots: bouk, bowk, buik

• “bǒuk, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 3 April 2018.