bocwudu

Compound of bōc (“book”) +‎ wudu (“wood”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈboːkˌwu.du/

bōcwudu n

1. a beechwood
   • Exeter Book, riddle 40

     Māra iċ eom ond fǣttra • þonne āmæsted swīn
     bearg bellende, • þe on bōcwuda,
     won wrōtende • wynnum lifde
     

     I am greater and fatter than the fattened up swine,
     a bellowing barrow, that in a beechwood
     lived rooting with joy.

Strong u-stem:

• English: beechwood

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “bóc-wudu”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.