boce

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔt͡sɛ/, [ˈbɔt͡sə]

Noun

boce

  1. locative singular of bok

Old French

Alternative forms

  • boche (Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *bottia (“bump”), a Germanic borrowing, from Frankish *boce (“knob”), from Old High German bozzan (“to beat”), from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to push, strike”)[1]

Noun

boce m (oblique plural boces, nominative singular boces, nominative plural boce)

  1. swelling (for example, due to injury or illness)

Descendants

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (boce, supplement)
  1. ↑ von Wartburg, Walther (1928-2002), “*bottia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 10, page 469
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