Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant, like an illness. · A boxing match. · An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept. · A roller derby match.
To contest a bout.
From Middle English bout, bowt, bught (whence also modern English bought (“bend, curve”)), probably from Old English *buht (“bend, turn”), an unrecorded variant of Old English byht (“a bend, curve”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“a bend”). Doublet of bight and bought. Compare Dutch bocht and German Bucht. For the sense development compare bender.
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- Root classification mention*bʰewgʰ-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionboutenm
- Cognate mentionboughten · bend, curve
- Inherited-form mention*buhtang · bend, turn
- Inherited-form mentionbyhtang · a bend, curve
- Inherited-form mention*buhtigmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*buhtizgem-pro · a bend
- Doublet mentionbighten
- Doublet mentionboughten
- Cognate mentionbochtnl
- Cognate mentionBuchtde
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