bordon
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See also: Bordon
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]bordon (plural bordons)
- Alternative form of bourdon (“pilgrim's staff”)
Esperanto
[edit]Noun
[edit]bordon
- accusative singular of bordo
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]bordon
- Alternative form of burdoun (“pilgrim's staff”)
Northern Sami
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]bordon
Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain; possibly onomatopoeic, dating as early as Late Latin burdo, burdonis (“kind of grasshopper”), possibly from Frankish *buʀdō (“beetle, insect”), from Proto-Germanic *buzdô (“beetle, grub", literally, "swelling”), from *būs- (“to erupt, burst, flow rapidly”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūs- (“to move quickly”).
Noun
[edit]bordon oblique singular, m (oblique plural bordons, nominative singular bordons, nominative plural bordon)
- bumblebee
- a sort of musical instrument
Descendants
[edit]- Middle French: bourdon
References
[edit]- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (bordon)
- “bordon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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