Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA tree-branch, usually a primary one directly attached to the trunk. · A gallows.
PIE word *bʰeh₂ǵʰús From Middle English bough (“branch of a bush or tree, especially a main branch; limb of an animal or person; something resembling a branch (such as a plant root or branch of a nerve); (figuratively) Christian cross; descendant, offspring”) [and other forms], from Old English bōg, bōh (“tree bough or branch; arm; shoulder”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōgu, from Proto-Germanic *bōguz (“shoulder; upper arm”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵʰús (“arm”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bouch, West Frisian boech, Dutch boeg, German Low German Boog, German Bug, Danish bov, Icelandic bógur, and distantly with Ancient Greek πῆχυς (pêkhus, “forearm, cubit, etc.”). Doublet of bow ("front of a ship, prow").
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionboughenm · branch of a bush or tree, especially a main branch; limb of an animal or person; something resembling a branch (such as a plant root or branch of a nerve); (figuratively) Christian cross; descendant, offspring
- Inherited-form mentionbōgang
- Inherited-form mention*bōgugmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*bōguzgem-pro · shoulder; upper arm
- Inherited-form mention*bʰeh₂ǵʰúsine-pro · arm
- Cognate mentionBouchstq
- Cognate mentionboechfy
- Cognate mentionboegnl
- Cognate mentionBugde
- Cognate mentionbovda
- Cognate mentionbóguris
- Cognate mentionπῆχυςgrc
- Doublet mentionbowen
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