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Bal displaced), ‘to be great, strong'; also bolgaim, ‘I swell,’  bolg, - bulga, ‘bag.’ It is also possible that   is cognate with  follis (from *folvis, *folgvis).  further .  ',,  ‘to talk angrily, quarrel,’ then ‘to cudgel’; derived from the verbal root belg, ‘to swell out,’ discussed under ;   bëlgan,  bëlgen, meaning ‘to be angry.’  '. , ‘beam, baulk, loft,’ from the   balke,  balcho, ;   balca,  baulk,  balk, ‘baulk'; in  beside the corresponding bálkr, ‘fence, boundary-line,’ there occurs with a different gradation bijálk-, ‘baulk' ( *bilka), in  likewise bolca, ‘gangway’ ( *bulka). From  balkon,  balcon and  balco are derived. The Aryan form of the root is bhalg, hence  (φάλαγξ, φάλαγγ-ος, ‘oval piece of wood, trunk of a tree,’ has been compared with it, but the nasal of the second syllable renders the comparison dubious.   , (1.), ‘challenge (of hounds),’ belongs to the stem of.

 (2.), . ‘ball,’ from the  bal ( balles) or balle, ballen,   ballo,, balla, ;  *bealla is wanting;  ball ( balle) is borrowed from the  word  balle, which was obtained from German. bǫllr, ‘ball,’ presupposes *ballus. The root bal- appears also with a further gradation in (in  too?);  further.

 (3.),, ‘dancing entertainment,’ from bal, ‘ball’;  baller, ‘to dance,’ and its  cognates have been derived from  βαλλίξω, ‘I dance.’   ,, ‘ballast,’ like other maritime expressions, from ;  ballast,  ballast. In simply last, ‘ballast,’ whence the   lest is derived. The first component of the compound is obscure; it is scarcely of Irish origin ( bal, ‘sand’), nor is it likely to be identical with bâra, ‘sea.’ On account of  baglest, ‘ballast.’ the least improbable derivation is from bak, ‘back,’ discussed under  (1.). might perhaps be ‘load behind or in the rear.’   ,, ‘jurisdiction,’ from ballia, formed from  bailli, bailif, ‘steward’ ( ballîvus,  bailiff), which is formed from  bajulus, with the suffix -îvus.   ,, ‘bale, pack,’ identical with , which, as  alle and  ballo show, was formerly a weak ; in connection with the difference of form arose a difference of meaning;  sense ‘round bundle of paper,’ then ‘a certain quantity of rolled or packed paper.’  bale and  baal are borrowed from  balle (also ballon), which was again obtained from.  , ‘to clench (the fist),’ from  ballen, ‘to form into a ball.’  ',, ', ‘to make worse by altering’; derived from , a publisher in Lübeck (1531-1599), who in his ‘enlarged and improved' editions of an ABC book was always making fresh mistakes in his ‘emendations.’   ,, ‘balm, balsam,’ from the  balsame, balsem, m ,  balsamo, ;  balsan, with a very remarkable deviation;   balasân. The word is derived from - balsamum (βάλσαμον), whence also  baume ( balm),  balsamo. <section end="Balsam" /> <section begin="Balz" /> ,, ‘pairing time (of birds),’ from balze (besides ralz), ; of obscure origin. <section end="Balz" /> ', also ',, ‘to dangle,’ first recorded in , hence it may be an onomatopoetic word collateral with , , ‘to tinkle.’ <section begin="Band" />  (1.),, ‘volume,’ identical with the following word.

 (2.),, ‘band, ribbon,’ from ; bant,  bender (and bant), ,  bant,  bentir (and bant). band, band,,  band;  by another derivation bandi (whence  bend,  bend, as well as a later band derived from  bande). See the preceding and the following word. <section end="Band" /> <section begin="Bande" /> ,, ‘cushion,’ in , from bande; similarly derived in the sense of ‘crew.’ The  word —  bande ( banda), ‘band, strip, gang, troop,’ is derived from  bant,  bandi. <section end="Bande" /> <section begin="bändigen" /> ,, ‘to restrain, tame,’ from , ordinarily only in the compound ; bendec, ‘tightly bound, fettered,’ hence , ‘to put in fetters.’ <section end="bändigen" /> , and, ‘anxious(ly), uneasy, uneasily,’ from  and  bange, , ‘anxiously,’ and  ‘anxiety, care.’ The root is ange, which further appears in ; as enge is the corresponding ,  can only be based on the   ange,  ango, the  afterwards becoming an. The b