Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To branch thickly in the manner of a bush. · To set bushes for; to support with bushes. · To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush. · To become bushy (often used with up).
A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category. · A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree. · A thicket, a small wood, or a tract of uncleared, woody land. · A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
From Middle English bush, from Old English *busċ, *bysċ (“copse, grove, scrub”, in placenames), from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”). Doublet of bosque. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Busk (“bush”), West Frisian bosk (“forest”), Dutch bos (“forest, wood”), German Busch (“bush, shrub; small forest, grove”), Luxembourgish Bësch (“forest, wood”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk busk (“bush, shrub”), Icelandic buski (“bush, shrub”), Swedish buske (“bush, shrub”), Persian بیشه (bêša/biše, “woods”). Latin and Romance forms (Latin boscus, Occitan bòsc, French bois, bûche and buisson, Italian bosco and boscaglia, Spanish bosque, Portuguese bosque) derive from the Germanic. Compare typologically Russian за́росли (zárosli) (akin to расти́ (rastí)). Also compare Russian быльё (bylʹjó) (distantly cognate via *bʰuH-).
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- Inherited-form mentionbushenm
- Inherited-form mention*busċang
- Inherited-form mention*buskgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*buskazgem-pro · bush, thicket
- Derivation mention*bʰuH-ine-pro · to grow
- Doublet mentionbosqueen
- Cognate mentionBuskstq · bush
- Cognate mentionboskfy · forest
- Cognate mentionbosnl · forest, wood
- Cognate mentionBuschde · bush, shrub; small forest, grove
- Cognate mentionBëschlb · forest, wood
- Cognate mentionbuskiis · bush, shrub
- Cognate mentionbuskesv · bush, shrub
- Cognate mentionبیشهfa · woods
- Cognate mentionboscusla
- Cognate mentionbòscoc
- Cognate mentionboisfr
- Cognate mentionboscoit
- Cognate mentionbosquees
- Cognate mentionbosquept
- Cognate mentionбыльёru
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