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

1. buckwheat

Descendants

• → Danish: boghvede (calque)
  • → Icelandic: bókhveiti
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: bokhvete
  • → Swedish: bovete
• → German: Buchweizen (calque)
• → Middle Dutch: boecweit, boecweite (calque)
  • Dutch: boekweit
    • Afrikaans: bokwiet
    • Jersey 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)