Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA large, wild bovid of the genus Bison.
From Middle English bysontes, bysountes pl, from Middle French bison, from Latin bisōn, bisōnt- (“wild ox”). The Latin term is recorded in the 1st century, likely a direct loan from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“wild ox, aurochs”) (see for full etymology). Akin to Old High German wisunt (“bison”), German Wisent (“bison”), Old English wesend, wusend (“bison, buffalo, wild ox”), Middle Dutch wēsent (“wild ox”). Doublet of wisent.
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- Root classification mention*wes-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionbisonenm
- Derivation mentionbisonfrm
- Derivation mentionbisonla
- Derivation mention*wisundazgem-pro · wild ox, aurochs
- Cognate mentionwisuntgoh · bison
- Cognate mentionWisentde · bison
- Cognate mentionwesendang · bison, buffalo, wild ox
- Cognate mentionwesentdum · wild ox
- Doublet mentionwisenten
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