boun

See also: Boun

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English boun, from Old Norse búinn, past participle of búa (“to prepare”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baʊn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aʊn

Adjective

boun (comparative more boun, superlative most boun)

1. (obsolete) Ready, prepared.

Verb

boun (third-person singular simple present bouns, present participle bouning, simple past and past participle bouned)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or get ready; prepare.
   • 1815, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lord of the Isles, a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], →OCLC:

     From Cheviot to the shores of Ross,
     From Solway-Sands to Marshal's - Moss,
     All bouned them for the fight

Derived terms

• bound

References

• “boun”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “boun”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• BuNo

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Norse búinn, past participle of búa (“to prepare”). Forms with /oː/ are from Old East Norse *bóinn.

Alternative forms

• bon, bone, boyn, boune, bownde, bowne, bownn, bun

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːn/
• (uncommon) IPA^(key): /boːn/

Adjective

boun

1. Ready, prepared, organised:
   • c. 1375, “Book XI”, in Iohne Barbour, De geſtis bellis et uirtutibus domini Roberti de Brwyß […] (The Brus, Advocates MS. 19.2.2)‎^[1], Ouchtirmunſye: Iohannes Ramſay, published 1489, folio 37, verso, lines 69-73; republished at Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, c. 2010:

     To ϸis ϸai all aſſentyt ar / And bad ϸ[air] men all mak ϸai[m] ȝar / For to be boune agayne ϸ[at] day / On ϸe beſt wiß ϸ[at] eu[ir] ϸai may

     To this they'd all assented, / and made their men make themselves ready / to be prepared again that day / in the best way that they're able to.

   1. Motivated, raring, eager.
   2. Loyal, subservient, compliant.
2. Bound, going or ready to go.
3. (rare) On the brink of; about to.
4. (rare) Close by, adjacent.

Derived terms

• bounen

Descendants

• English: boun (obsolete); bound
• Scots: boun

References

• “bǒun, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

boun

1. Alternative form of bounen

Scots

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English boun, from Old Norse búinn, past participle of búa (“prepare”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʌun/, /bun/

Adjective

boun (comparative mair boun, superlative maist boun)

1. ready, prepared

   Therefore ever thou mak thee boun / To obey, and thank thy God of all. — Robert Henryson, ‘The Abbey Walk’