Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A loud, intense shouting or wailing.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo shout or utter in a loud and intense manner. · To wail; to give out a blaring cry. · To weep profusely.
From Middle English baulen, from Old Norse baula (“to bellow”) and/or Medieval Latin baulō (“to bark”), both from Proto-Germanic *bau- (“to roar”), conflated with Proto-Germanic *bellaną, *ballijaną, *buljaną (“to shout, low, roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to sound, roar”). Cognate with Faroese belja (“to low”), Icelandic baula (“to moo, low”), Swedish böla (“to bellow, low”). More at bell.
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