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==Origin==
==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''bōc''; akin to Old High German ''buoh'' book, Gothic ''boka'' letter
[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''bōc''; akin to Old High German ''buoh'' book, Gothic ''boka'' letter
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century]
The word comes from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English Old English] "bōc" which (itself) comes from the Germanic root "*bōk-", cognate to beech. Similarly, in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_languages Slavic languages] (for example, Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian) "буква" (bukva—"letter") is cognate with "beech". In Russian and in Serbian and Macedonian, another Slavic languages, the words "букварь" (bukvar') and "буквар" (bukvar), respectively, refer specifically to a primary school [[textbook]] that helps young children master the [[techniques]] of [[reading]] and [[writing]]. It is thus [[conjectured]] that the earliest [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages Indo-European] writings may have been carved on beech wood. Similarly, the Latin word codex, [[meaning]] a book in the modern sense (bound and with separate leaves), originally meant "block of wood".
The word comes from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English Old English] "bōc" which (itself) comes from the Germanic root "*bōk-", cognate to beech. Similarly, in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_languages Slavic languages] (for example, Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian) "буква" (bukva—"letter") is cognate with "beech". In Russian and in Serbian and Macedonian, another Slavic languages, the words "букварь" (bukvar') and "буквар" (bukvar), respectively, refer specifically to a primary school [[textbook]] that helps young children master the [[techniques]] of [[reading]] and [[writing]]. It is thus [[conjectured]] that the earliest [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages Indo-European] writings may have been carved on beech wood. Similarly, the Latin word codex, [[meaning]] a book in the modern sense (bound and with separate leaves), originally meant "block of wood".