Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle. · A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat. · A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods. · A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.
To embower; to enclose. · To lodge.
From Middle English bour, from Old English būr, from Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą (“room, abode”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Búur (“storage room, utility room; cage”), German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr (“cage”) (Danish bur, Norwegian Bokmål bur, Swedish bur).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*bʰuH-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionbourenm
- Inherited-form mentionbūrang
- Inherited-form mention*būrgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*būrągem-pro · room, abode
- Cognate mentionBúurstq · storage room, utility room; cage
- Cognate mentionBauerde
- Cognate mentionbúrnon
- Cognate mentionburda
- Cognate mentionburnb
- Cognate mentionbursv
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