bocht

Dutch

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bɔxt/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: bocht
  • Rhymes: -ɔxt

Etymology 1

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Old Dutch *buht, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz. Related to buigen.

Noun

bocht f or m (plural bochten, diminutive bochtje n)

  1. a bend, curve, inflection, something not straight
  2. a twist, change
  3. a bight, broad curvature of a coastline, bay
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: boktu
  • → Papiamentu: bògt
  • → Sranan Tongo: boktu
    • → Aukan: bokutu
    • → Caribbean Javanese: boktu

Etymology 2

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), becht, bacht (“garbage, dung, shit”), possibly from Proto-West Germanic *buggjan (“to buy”), though this is at odds with the last two forms.[1]

Noun

bocht m or n (uncountable)

  1. (now Belgium) junk, rubbish
  2. junk, booze, moonshine
  3. (Netherlands) disgusting drink, trash, rubbish
    Hij zei dat de bocht die hij ons gaf whiskey was, maar het smaakte er niet naar.
    He said that the foul drink he gave us was whiskey, but it didn't taste like it.

References
  1. van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “bocht2”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Irish

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Pronunciation

Adjective

bocht (genitive singular masculine boicht, genitive singular feminine boichte, plural bochta, comparative boichte)

  1. poor (of circumstances, of quality, condition, expressing pity, sympathy, expressing dislike, contempt)
  2. stingy
  3. (nominalized, masculine) poor person

Declension
Declension of bocht
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) bhocht bochta;
bhochta²
Vocative bhoicht bochta
Genitive boichte bochta Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Dative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value);
bhocht¹		 bhocht;
bhoicht (archaic)		 bochta;
bhochta²
Comparative níos boichte
Superlative is boichte

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Mutation

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

References
  1. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 18
  2. Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 47

Further reading

Old Irish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /boxt/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *boxtos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰogtós, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-.

Adjective

bocht

  1. poor
  2. (Christianity) of one who has taken a vow of poverty
Inflection
o/ā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Vocative boicht*
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)**
Accusative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) boicht
Genitive boicht boichte boicht
Dative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) boicht Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative boicht bochta
Vocative bochtu
bochta†
Accusative bochtu
bochta†
Genitive Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Dative bochtaib
Notes *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative

**modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative
† not when substantivized

Descendants
  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • Manx: boght
  • Scottish Gaelic: bochd

Noun

bocht m or f

  1. poor person, pauper
  2. the poor (in a collective sense)
Inflection

As a masculine noun: Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) As a feminine noun: Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

·bocht

  1. passive singular preterite of boingid

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/		 mbocht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scots

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [boxt]
  • (Central Scots) IPA(key): [bot], [boʔ]
  • (South Scots) IPA(key): [bʌu(x)t]

Verb

bocht

  1. simple past tense and past participle of buy
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