bouée
French
noun
Definitions
- buoy (nautical: a moored float)
- rubber ring
Etymology
Derived from Middle Dutch boeye (buoy, life buoy, float, fetter, shackle) inherited from Middle French boue, boue(e) (a flotation signaling danger) inherited from Old French boue, buie (a piece of wood cork floating above an anchor to indicate where it is wet) derived from Frankish *baukn derived from Latin boia (fetter, band, collar, neck collar, a collar) derived from Ancient Greek βοείη (ox hide), βόειος (of ox-hide).
Origin
Ancient Greek
βόειος
Gloss
of ox-hide
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *boiester Latin
- *bovestris Latin
- boia Latin
- boia Italian
- boei Dutch, Flemish
- boya Spanish, Castilian
- βοείη Ancient Greek
- βόειος Ancient Greek
- βόεος Ancient Greek
- πολυβόειος Ancient Greek
- *baukną Proto-Germanic
- beacnian Old English
- bēacn Old English
- beken Middle English
- bekyn Middle English
- boy Middle English
- bákn Old Norse
- bøje Danish
- bøjelig Danish
- bøjning Danish
- faldbøje Danish
- gradbøje Danish
- boie Old French
- boue, buie Old French
- buie Old French
- baken Middle Dutch
- boeye Middle Dutch
- boue, boue(e) Middle French
- *baukn gmw-pro
- boie Middle Low German
- bâke Middle Low German
- bāke Middle Low German
- *baukn Frankish
- beaken Western Frisian
- bāken Old Frisian
- Boake Saterland Frisian