bouleau
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French, derived from Old French boul, bououl + -eau. The former from *betullus, alteration of Latin betulla, diminutive of Gaulish *betua, from Proto-Celtic *betwiyos, *betuyā (“birch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet-. Compare Italian betulla, Catalan bedoll, Spanish abedul, Portuguese bétula, as well as Galician bídalo and bidueiro.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /bu.lo/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Hyphenation: bou‧leau
- Homophones: bouleaux (general), boulot, boulots (except regionally)
Noun edit
bouleau m (plural bouleaux)
- birch tree
Further reading edit
- “bouleau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.