Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Having a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts. · Full of health, vigour, and good temper. · Physically flexible or unresisting. · Morally pliant; obedient and easily yielding to pressure.
From Middle English buxom, also ibucsum, ibuhsum (“bendsome, flexible, pliant, obedient”), from Old English bōcsum, *būhsum, *ġebūhsum (“bendsome, pliant, obedient”), from Proto-West Germanic *beuhsam, *beugsam, equivalent to bow (“to bend, bow at the waist”) + -some or buck (“to bend, buckle, kick”) + -some. Cognate with Scots bowsome (“compliant”), West Frisian bûgsum (“flexible, bendy”), Dutch buigzaam (“flexible, pliant”), German biegsam (“flexible, pliant”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionbuxomenm
- Inherited-form mentionbōcsumang
- Inherited-form mention*beuhsamgmw-pro
- Word-formation componentbowen · to bend, bow at the waist
- Word-formation component-someen
- Word-formation componentbucken · to bend, buckle, kick
- Cognate mentionbowsomesco · compliant
- Cognate mentionbûgsumfy · flexible, bendy
- Cognate mentionbuigzaamnl · flexible, pliant
- Cognate mentionbiegsamde · flexible, pliant
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Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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