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boul

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English

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boul (plural bouls)

  1. (archaic, rare) A curved handle.

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Antillean Creole

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Noun

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boul

  1. clot; lump; clod

Champenois

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French boul, Inherited from Latin betulla.

Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /bul/

Noun

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boul m (plural bouls)

  1. (Rémois) birch, Betula

References

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  • Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)[1] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
  • Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux[2] (in French), Troyes

French

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Noun

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boul m (plural bouls)

  1. Abbreviation of boulevard. Alternative form of boul.

Old French

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *betullus, from Latin betulla, diminutive of Gaulish *betua, from Proto-Celtic *betwiyos, *betuyā (birch), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet-.

Also compare Catalan bedoll, Portuguese bétula, Italian betulla.

Noun

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boul oblique singularm (oblique plural bous or box or bouls, nominative singular bous or box or bouls, nominative plural boul)

  1. birch (tree)

Descendants

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  • Franc-Comtois: boulât
  • French: bouleau

References

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  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (boul)

Romanian

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boul m

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of bou