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BonEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Borrowed from Tibetan བོན (bon).
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Mayhew–Skeat (1888)
1888; pinned HTML transcription updated October 28, 2024012
MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
nounhistorical-form prefix
husband
A married man in relation to a spouse; borrowed from a Norse compound whose earlier center was householder or master of a house.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗nounhistorical form
algebra
A mathematical discipline whose English name travels through Medieval Latin from Arabic al-jabr, restoration or completion.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗025
ATTESTED / RECONSTRUCTED / BOUNDARY
HISTORICAL FORMS
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Old Norse / Indo-European
bōndi
householder; dweller
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- Old Norse
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- historical-form prefix
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Medieval Latin / Indo-European
algebra
restoration; bone-setting; the mathematical art
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- 12th–16th centuries
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- gloss
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Middle English / Indo-European
husbonde
husband; householder
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- Middle English
- MATCH
- transliteration
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- 1
Old English / Indo-European
hūsbōnda
master of a house; householder
- DATE
- Old English
- MATCH
- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 1
Old Norse / Indo-European
hūsbōndi
householder; master of a house
- DATE
- Old Norse
- MATCH
- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 1
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CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 2
openspeculativeposition text
Why did kinship become central in Scandinavian?
Cleasby–Vigfússon and Fritzner propose social explanations involving strong family bonds and mutual obligation, but the textual distribution does not uniquely prove one causal event.
resolvedestablishedposition text
Is the bone-setting sense a fake folk story?
No. Arabic and Romance transmission includes reunion of broken parts and bone-setting. That real medical sense should not be confused with the mathematical title history.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 2
RANK 120GRADE Aranked reveal
A husband was a householder before he was a spouse.
English borrowed Old Norse hūsbōndi, house plus householder; spouse meaning grew from household status.
RANK 175GRADE Aranked reveal
Algebra named restoration before it named symbols.
Arabic al-jabr was an operation of restoring or completing an equation—and also had a real bone-setting history.
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BOOKS / DICTIONARIES / ARTICLES / DATABASES
SOURCES
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FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
ATTESTATION WITNESSES
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