different between louk vs bouk

English

Alternative forms

• look

Etymology 1

From Middle English louken, lowken, from Old English l?can (“to pluck out, pull up”), from Proto-Germanic *l?kan?, *leukan? (“to break, pluck, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *l??- (“to break”). Cognate with Middle Low German l?ken (“to pull, pull up”), German liechen (“to pluck”), Danish luge (“to hatch”), Latin luctor (“wrestle, fight”, verb).

Verb

louk (third-person singular simple present louks, present participle louking, simple past and past participle louked)

1. (transitive) To weed; pull up weeds.

Etymology 2

From Middle English louken, from Old English l?can (“to close, lock”), from Proto-Germanic *l?kan? (“to close, lock”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend, turn”). More at lock.

Verb

louk (third-person singular simple present louks, present participle louking, simple past and past participle louked)

1. Alternative form of lock

Etymology 3

From Middle English louk, louke, loke, of uncertain origin.

Alternative forms

• lowk

Noun

louk (plural louks)

1. (obsolete) An accomplice; partner; comrade.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?lou?k]

Noun

louk

1. genitive plural of louka

Livonian

Etymology

Borrowing from Latvian lauks.

Noun

louk

1. field

English

Alternative forms

• bouke

Etymology

From Middle English bouk, from Old English b?c (“belly, stomach, pitcher”), from Proto-Germanic *b?kaz (“belly, body”), from Proto-Indo-European *b??w- (“to blow, swell”). Cognate with Scots bouk, bowk, buik (“body, carcass”), Dutch buik (“belly”), German Bauch (“belly”), Swedish buk (“belly, abdomen”), Norwegian Bokmål bukk (“belly”), Icelandic búkur (“torso”). See also bucket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?k/, /b??k/

Noun

bouk (plural bouks)

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

Anagrams

• Kubo, boku, buko

Marshallese

Alternative forms

• bou
• boub

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [p?ouk]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /p?ewik/
• Bender phonemes: {b?wik}

Noun

bouk

1. a dragonfly

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Middle English

Alternative forms

• booke, book, buc, buk, boyke, bouke

Etymology

From Old English b?c, from Proto-Germanic *b?kaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?k/

Noun

bouk (plural boukes or bouken)

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

Descendants

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

References

• “b?uk, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.