Dutch edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Dutch boken, bueken, perhaps related to pochen (brag), evolving from "defy" into "knock."[1]

Verb edit

beuken

  1. (transitive) to ram, to beat, to knock
Inflection edit
Inflection of beuken (weak)
infinitive beuken
past singular beukte
past participle gebeukt
infinitive beuken
gerund beuken n
present tense past tense
1st person singular beuk beukte
2nd person sing. (jij) beukt beukte
2nd person sing. (u) beukt beukte
2nd person sing. (gij) beukt beukte
3rd person singular beukt beukte
plural beuken beukten
subjunctive sing.1 beuke beukte
subjunctive plur.1 beuken beukten
imperative sing. beuk
imperative plur.1 beukt
participles beukend gebeukt
1) Archaic.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
  • Petjo: beuken

Etymology 2 edit

From Middle Dutch boekijn. Equivalent to beuk (beech) +‎ -en.

Adjective edit

beuken (not comparable)

  1. beechen (made of beech wood)
Inflection edit
Inflection of beuken
uninflected beuken
inflected beuken
comparative
positive
predicative/adverbial
indefinite m./f. sing. beuken
n. sing. beuken
plural beuken
definite beuken
partitive

Etymology 3 edit

Noun edit

beuken

  1. plural of beuk

References edit

  1. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “boken”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute