bouleau

From Old French boul, bououl + -eau, from *betullus, from Latin betulla, diminutive of Gaulish *betua, from Proto-Celtic *betwiyos, *betuyā (“birch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet-. Compare Italian betulla, Catalan bedoll, Spanish abedul, Portuguese bétula, as well as Galician bídalo and bidueiro.

• IPA^(key): /bu.lo/

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• Homophones: bouleaux, boulot, boulots
• Hyphenation: bou‧leau

bouleau m (plural bouleaux)

1. birch tree

• “bouleau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.