beech

• n. 山毛櫸
• adj. 山毛櫸木材的
• n. (Beech)人名；(英)比奇

來自PIE *bhagos, 櫸樹，詞源同book.

beech

beech: [OE] Like many other tree-names, beech goes back a long way into the past, and is not always what it seems. Among early relatives Latin fāgus meant ‘beech’ (whence the tree’s modern scientific name), but Greek phāgós, for example, referred to an ‘edible oak’. Both come from a hypothetical Indo-European *bhagos, which may be related to Greek phagein ‘eat’ (which enters into a number of English compounds, such as phagocyte [19], literally ‘eating-cell’, geophagy [19], ‘earth-eating’, and sarcophagus).

If this is so, the name may signify etymologically ‘edible tree’, with reference to its nuts, ‘beech mast’. The Old English word bēce’s immediate source was Germanic *bōkjōn, but this was a derivative; the main form bōkō produced words for ‘beech’ in other Germanic languages, such as German buche and Dutch beuk, and it survives in English as the first element of buckwheat [16], so named from its three-sided seeds which look like beech nuts.

It is thought that book may come ultimately from bōk- ‘beech’, on the grounds that early runic inscriptions were carved on beechwood tablets.
=> book, buckwheat, phagocyte, sarcophagus

beech (n.)

Old English bece "beech," from Proto-Germanic *bokjon (cognates: Old Norse bok, Dutch beuk, Flemish boek, Old High German buohha, German Buche, Middle Dutch boeke "beech"), from PIE root *bhagos "beech tree" (cognate with Greek phegos "oak," Latin fagus "beech;" see fagus).

Formerly with adjectival form beechen. Also see book (n.).

1. The furniture is made of sycamore, beech and leather.

這套家具是由西卡莫木材、山毛櫸木材以及皮革製成的。

來自柯林斯例句

2. They were sitting on the lawn under a large beech tree.

他們坐在一棵高大的山毛櫸樹下的草坪上。

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3. The worktop is made of solid beech.

操作台是由結實的山毛櫸木做成的。

來自柯林斯例句

4. forests planted with beech

山毛櫸林

來自《權威詞典》

5. Foxworth shivered as the wind rose up and roared through the beech trees.

風勢漸大，在山毛櫸樹間呼呼吹過，福克斯沃思瑟瑟發抖。

來自柯林斯例句