ooibos

20th century coinage. Compound of Middle Dutch ooy (“ait, island, wetland”) +‎ bos (“forest”), the former being derived from Proto-Germanic *awjō and identical to the toponym Ooij. Unrelated to modern ooi (“ewe”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈoːi̯.bɔs/

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• Hyphenation: ooi‧bos

ooibos n (plural ooibossen)

1. a riparian forest

   Coordinate term: uiterwaard

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “ooibos”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

• ooibos on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl