abord
French
noun
Definitions
- (literary) The manner with which one acts in the presence of another person or persons, especially in a first encounter.
- (rare) The surroundings of a place.
- (archaic) Arrival or accessibility by water.
Etymology
Derived from Old French aborder (hit a ship in order to board it) derived from Frankish *bord (board, plank, side of a ship vessel) derived from Proto-Germanic *burdą (board, table, plank, border, edge, side) derived from Proto-Indo-European *bheredh- (cut).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bheredh-
Gloss
cut
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- abord English
- starboard English
- bordellum Latin
- bordum Latin
- bord French
- *bheredh- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰerdʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰr̥dʰ-o- Proto-Indo-European
- bord Norwegian Bokmål
- *burdô Proto-Germanic
- *burdą Proto-Germanic
- *burzdą Proto-Germanic
- bord Swedish
- bord Norwegian Nynorsk
- bord Old English
- bordclaþ Old English
- byrdling Old English
- bæcbord Old English
- guþbord Old English
- hildebord Old English
- yþbord Old English
- boorde Middle English
- bord Middle English
- borde Middle English
- bourd Middle English
- burde Middle English
- borð Old Norse
- bord Danish
- aborder Old French
- bord Old French
- bordel Old French
- border Old French
- borð Icelandic
- bort Old High German
- bòrd Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- borð Faroese
- bord Norman
- bort Middle High German
- *𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳 Gothic
- *bord gmw-pro
- *bordo Old Dutch
- *pordas Proto-Finnic
- *purci Proto-Finnic
- *bord Frankish
- bord Middle Irish
- bord Cornish
- bort Middle Welsh
- bwrt Middle Welsh
- borð Scanian