Where does “bookstore” come from?
Bookstore comes from English book and store, with book tracing back through Middle English booke and Old English bōc to Proto-Indo-European roots related to beech trees used for writing surfaces.
bookstore (English): A store where books are bought and sold
Definitions
- A store where books are bought and sold
Ancestry of “bookstore”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | Book | — |
| 2 | German | būch | — |
| 3 | Middle High German | buoch | — |
| 4 | Old High German | buoh | book |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | bōk | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | bakaną | to bake |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeh₃g- | to bake, to roast, to fry |
Words derived from “bookstore”