Noun: boekstaaf
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
| Sg. | boekstaaf |
| Pl. | boekstaven |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like boekstaaf
schaaf,
bokraaf,
gehaktstaaf,
kankerstaaf,
waterraaf,
conclaaf,
zoeaaf,
inktstaaf,
burggraaf,
negerslaaf,
Slaaf,
markgraaf,
dijkgraaf,
galeislaaf,
loonslaaf,
hoornraaf,
staaf,
slaaf,
loopgraaf,
seksslaaf, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch boecstaef, boecstave, from Old Dutch buocstaf, *buocstavo, from Proto-Germanic *bōkastabô, *bōkastabaz (“letter, written symbol”), equivalent to boek + staaf. Compare German Buchstabe, English bookstave. See: German Nouns '
Buchstabe', English Nouns '
bookstave'.
Verbs referencing "boekstaaf"
English Nouns
bookstaff.
Translations