NODE / 0877attestedAncient Greek
βοεία (δορά)
TRANSLITERATION boeía (dorá)
ox hide
- DATE
- Ancient Greek
- SENSE
- ox hide
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Hellenic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:10:boeia-dora:attested:sense:ox-hide
The ox-hide expression proposed behind Latin bōia.
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GO DEEPERderivationestablished
Ancient Greek · Ancient Greek · ox cowβοῦς
ox; bull; cow
- SOUND
- Greek boeía, bovine or of an ox, is formed from boûs, ox or cow.
- MEANING
- The material name specializes the cattle word as ox hide.
- SCHOLAR
- American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established
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HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Latin bōia is traced to Greek boeía dorá, ox hide.
- MEANING
- An ox-hide material expression is proposed behind a restraining collar or yoke.
American Heritage Dictionary Editors1 CITATIONEDGE 876 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Old French buie continues Latin bōia.
- MEANING
- The restraint noun crosses from Latin into French.
American Heritage Dictionary Editors1 CITATIONEDGE 875 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 031 EDGE
STEP 03derivationestablished
- SOUND
- Old French embuier is formed on buie, a fetter or shackle.
- MEANING
- The verb continues the restraint meaning of the noun.
American Heritage Dictionary Editors1 CITATIONEDGE 874 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 041 EDGE
STEP 04derivationestablished
- SOUND
- Old French embuié is the participial person-form of embuier, to fetter.
- MEANING
- A person in fetters is named from the restraining action.
American Heritage Dictionary Editors1 CITATIONEDGE 873 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 051 EDGE
STEP 05competing borrowingproposed
- SOUND
- Middle English boi has been compared with Old French embuié, a person in fetters.
- MEANING
- The servant or churl field is proposed to connect with a restrained person.
American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 872 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 061 EDGE
STEP 06continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English boi develops into modern boy with stabilized spelling.
- MEANING
- Male servant, churl, and young-male senses settle around the modern male-child center.
Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 871 ↗ “Every” means every descendant in the reviewed SET-U graph. It does not convert missing scholarship or missing ingestion into a claim of historical completeness. The coverage ledger remains the honest denominator.
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