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An Americanized form of German Buch, or alternatively a variant of Buck.

Book (plural Books)

  1. A surname.

From buæk.

Book

  1. a surname from Cebuano

From Middle Low German bôk, from Old Saxon bōk (“book”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks (“beech, book”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos. Cognate with Dutch boek, English book, West Frisian boek, German Buch, Danish bog, Faroese bók, Icelandic bók, Norwegian bok, Swedish bok, Gothic 𐌱𐍉𐌺𐌰 (bōka). The Germanic root is often taken to be related to the word for beech, the wood of rune-tablets.

Book n (plural Böker or Beuker or Boken) (German Low German)

  1. book