Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows. · A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow). · A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments. · A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the ends, most often played by plucking.
To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow. · To bend or curve, particularly downward. · To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend or incline, figuratively; to humble or subdue.
From Middle English bowe, from Old English boga, Proto-West Germanic *bogō, from Proto-Germanic *bugô. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Booge (“arch, bow, curve”), West Frisian bôge (“arc, arch, bow”), Dutch boog (“arc, arch, bow”), German Bogen (“arc, arch, bow, curve”), Luxembourgish Bou (“arc, arch, bow, curve”), Vilamovian böga (“arc, arch, bend, bow, curve”), Yiddish בויגן (boygn, “arc, arch, bow, curve”), Danish bue (“arc, arch, bow, curve”), Faroese and Icelandic bogi (“arch, bow, vault”), Jamtish buga (“bow”), Norwegian Bokmål bue (“arc, arch, bow”), Norwegian Nynorsk boge (“arc, arch, bow”), Swedish båge (“bow”), Crimean Gothic boga (“bow”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*bʰewgʰ-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionboweenm
- Inherited-form mentionbogaang
- Inherited-form mention*bogōgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*bugôgem-pro
- Cognate mentionBoogestq · arch, bow, curve
- Cognate mentionbôgefy · arc, arch, bow
- Cognate mentionboognl · arc, arch, bow
- Cognate mentionBogende · arc, arch, bow, curve
- Cognate mentionBoulb · arc, arch, bow, curve
- Cognate mentionbögawym · arc, arch, bend, bow, curve
- Cognate mentionבויגןyi · arc, arch, bow, curve
- Cognate mentionbueda · arc, arch, bow, curve
- Cognate mentionbugagmq-jmk · bow
- Cognate mentionbuenb · arc, arch, bow
- Cognate mentionbogenn · arc, arch, bow
- Cognate mentionbågesv · bow
- Cognate mentionbogagme-cgo · bow
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