bote

Middle English

/boːt/, /boːt/

noun
Definitions
  • Help, advantage, benefit; that which is good, helpful, or relieving:
  • Activity done as redress or recompense for (one's or another's) sins; expiation.
  • Mirth, gladness; the feeling or emotion of being happy and joyful.
  • The quelling, curing, or expurgation of disease or sickness; medical recovery.
  • (rare) Recompense, amends or compensation; behaviour in return for one's wrongs.
  • (rare) An extra, augment, or addition; something to boot.
  • (rare) A medicinal or pharmaceutical cure or remedy; something used to quell disease.
  • (rare) Repair work; the act of fixing structures or buildings.

Etymology

Inherited from Old English bōt (remedy, relief, atonement, help, repentance, recompense, advantage, compensation for an injury wrong, penance, offering, amends, reformation, remediation) inherited from Proto-Germanic *bōtō (recompense, improvement, atonement).

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*bōtō

Gloss

recompense, improvement, atonement

Kanji

償

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