Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A small bag for carrying money. · A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items) · A quantity of money given for a particular purpose. · A specific sum of money in certain countries: formerly 500 piastres in Turkey or 50 tomans in Persia.
To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude. · To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles; to pucker; to knit. · To put into a purse. · To steal purses; to rob.
From Middle English purs, from Old English purs (“purse”), partly from pusa (“wallet, bag, scrip”) and partly from burse (“pouch, bag”). Old English pusa comes from Proto-West Germanic *pusō, from Proto-Germanic *pusô (“bag, sack, scrip”), and is cognate with Old High German pfoso (“pouch, purse”), Low German pūse (“purse, bag”), Old Norse posi (“purse, bag”), Danish pose (“purse, bag”). Old English burse comes from Medieval Latin bursa (“leather bag”) (compare English bursar), from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, “hide, wine-skin”). Compare also Old French borse (French bourse), Old Saxon bursa (“bag”), Old High German burissa (“wallet”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionpursenm
- Inherited-form mentionpursang · purse
- Cognate mentionpusaang
- Inherited-form mention*pusōgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*pusôgem-pro · bag, sack, scrip
- Cognate mentionpfosogoh · pouch, purse
- Cognate mentionpusends · purse, bag
- Cognate mentionposinon · purse, bag
- Cognate mentionposeda · purse, bag
- Cognate mentionburseang
- Cognate mentionbursaren
- Derivation mentionβύρσαgrc · hide, wine-skin
- Cognate mentionborsefro
- Cognate mentionboursefr
- Cognate mentionbursaosx · bag
- Cognate mentionburissagoh · wallet
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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