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Boc the  bock ( bockes),  boc, ; corresponds to  bok,  bucca,  buck,  bukkr and bokkr ( *bukks, *bukka, ) Like so many names of animals ( e.g., ),  too may have descended from  Aryan times; comp;  bocc, from   bucco-. Although it is not quite impossible that the whole class was borrowed from, yet it seems more probable, on account of  buc, ‘lamb,’ and Zend bûza, ‘he-goat’ (Aryan primitive form bhûga), that it was only  akin to   bouc may be derived from  or. Another word (related to  caper,  κάπρος) is preserved in. —, ‘mistake,’ only, seems to be a pun due to  , ‘blunder.’ The origin of the phrase  (‘to commit a blunder’) is not clear; note, however, that  is ‘to tall head over heels.’ —  (whence  boc), for , which first occurs in , is an abbrev. of (now );  the origin of.   ,, ‘old prejudice,’ first occurs in , and connected instinctively by Germans with ; it is, however, of origin, bocks- representing bôks (‘of the book’). The women of Hamburg used to carry their hymn-books at their side in a satchel, which they were always fond of wearing. When applied to a sort of bottle, has a different origin, and means properly ‘the scrotum of the buck.’   ,, ‘bottom, ground, soil, loft,’ from the  boden, bodem,  bodemes (the   bodem is stil used,  the proper name ),  bodam, , which still exists in the cognate dialects and languages. bodam points, however, not to *buþma-, but, with a remarkable irregularity, to *budna-, the corresponding  botm,  bottom, exhibiting a further irregularity in the dental. *budna- seems probable, since the non- languages of the Aryan stock point to bhudhmen, bhudhnó- as the stem; πυθμήν, ὁ (for *φυθμήν, see ), ‘bottom’;  fundus (for *fudnus),  budhná- (for *bhudhná-, by the same rule as in ). It is a Aryan word, with the meaning ‘bottom, ground,’ but is not connected, however, with a   in any Aryan language. — obtained its name during the Carolovingian period  (formerly Lacus Brigantînus, ‘Lake Constance’) from the imperial palace at Bodema (now Bodmann), which may be the  of the.   ,, ‘money advanced on the security of the ship's keel or bottom’ (i.e. the ship itself), from bodmerîe,  bottomry (whence  bomerie).   ,, ‘puck-ball,’ only, properly ‘knave's fizzling’ (see under );   wulfes fist, the name of the plant ( bullfist), of which - lycoperdon is a late imitation.   ,, ‘bow, arc, vault, sheet (of paper),’ from boge,  bogo, , ‘bow’;   boga,  bow;  *buga. Properly a of, hence  ‘curve, bend,’ connected with the  cognates of ;  further the   compounds ,.   ,, ‘plank, board,’ from the  bole;   bolr (whence  bole), ‘trunk (of a tree)’; perhaps connected with  boln, ‘to roll,’  φάλαγξ, ‘trunk.’ See.   ,, ‘bean,’ from bône,  bôna, ; the corresponding  beán,  bean,  boon,  baun, have the same meaning. The early existence of this word is attested by the name of the islands, Baunonia. It has not yet been possible to find a connecting link between the  term and the   faba,  bobŭ ( φακός, ‘lentil’). <section end="Bohne" /> ,, ‘to wax (a floor), polish,’ first occurs in from the   bônen;   boenen, ‘to scour,’  bônian, ‘to polish’ (  to boon, ‘to mend roads’). Allied to these is the büenen, ‘to polish’ ( *bônjan). The root bôn, from pre- bhân, ‘to shine, glitter,’ is probably connected with the  root φαν (φαίνω),  bhânu, ‘sheen, light, ray,’  bán, ‘white.’ <section begin="Bohnenlied" /> , ‘bean-song’ (in the phase, applied to something incomparably good); the word may be traced as far back as the 15th , but the song itself has not been discovered. It may have been an obscure poem, since the bean among various nations is adopted as the symbol of lewdness ( the mediæval bean-feast, πυανέψια). <section end="Bohnenlied" /> <section begin="Böhnhase" /> ,, ‘bungler, clumsy <section end="Böhnhase" />