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Boh ,’ first found in ; generally asserted to be a popular corruption of βάναυσος, which means ‘artisan;’ but it is inexplicable how the  word found its way into popular speech. It is more probably of real German origin, although the primary meaning cannot be got at; we must begin with the fact that the word is native to, and is chiefly used in Tailors' Guilds. We must probably regard hase as a form for  (see, ). is generally considered to be a word for, ‘garret’; hence  is perhaps ‘one who makes breeches in the garret, petty tailor’ (opposed to one whose workroom is on the first floor).  ,, ‘to bore, pierce,’ from the  born,  borôn;  the corresponding  boren,  borian,  to bore (and bore, ‘hole made by boring’);  *baúrôn. The  bŏrôn, ‘to bore,’ is  cognate with  forare, ‘to bore,’  φαράω, ‘I plough’;  bhurij, ‘scissors,’ belongs to the same root, and in  there is a verbal root berr, from bherj, meaning ‘to shear.’ The primary meaning of this root bhar, which differs from that appearing in  and  fero,  φέρω was probably ‘to fashion with a sharp instrument.’   , ‘woodlouse,’  bore.  ,, ‘baize,’ only, from  baje,  baai, which is borrowed from  ( boie); perhaps  baize is properly a.   ,, ‘bay-salt', only, of  origin, for ;   and  bay-salt.   ,, ‘buoy,’ from the boje,  boei,  buoy, which are borrowed from ;   bouée, ‘buoy,’  buie, ‘chain, fetter', whence  boie, ‘fetter'. The ultimate source of the word is boja, ‘fetter’; the buoy was originally a floating piece of wood with a rope fastened to it.   ,, ‘cod,’ like (1.), from the   balche; of obscure origin.   , in compounds like, , &c., from bolt,  boldes; it is the unaccented form of the   balt, ‘bold,’ which is discussed under.   ,, ‘to roar, bleat,’ only, and perhaps cognate with , which had formerly a wider signification  than in ;   bulken, ‘to bellow, bleat.’  ,, ‘stiff (of leather), brittle, hard’; only; origin obscure.   (1.),, ‘onion,’ properly identical with the following word; both are subdivisions of a probable primary meaning, ‘bulbaceous.’ It is hardly probable that βολβός,  bulbus (whence  bulb), ‘bulb, onion,’ had any influence on the meaning. See also.

 (2.), ‘bulb,’ from bolle,  bolla,, ‘bud, bowl’;  the corresponding  bolla, ‘vessel, bowl,’  bowl ( , is borrowed from ). Interesting forms are hirnibolla, ‘skull,’ and the   heáfodbolla. It is evident that there was some such idea as ‘boss-shaped’ in the  word;  farther  boln,  bolôn, ‘to roll, throw, hurl.’ <section end="Bolle" /> <section begin="Böller" /> ,, ‘small mortar (for throwing shells),’ only, a  of the  boln, ‘to throw,’ mentioned under the preceding word;  late  boler, ‘catapult.’ <section end="Böller" /> <section begin="Bollwerk" /> ,, ‘bulwark, bastion,’ from late bolwerk, ‘catapult, bulwark,’ in the former sense cognate with the preceding word; in the latter probably connected with ;  bolwerk,  bulwark. The word in the sense of ‘bulwark,’ which belongs to it since the 15th, found its way into  and  ( bolverk,  boulevard). <section end="Bollwerk" /> <section begin="Bolz" /> ', ',, ‘short arrow-bolt,’ from the  bolz,  bolz, ;  the   bolte,  bolt,  bolt; allied to  bout, ‘cramp-pin.’ The word has the same meaning in all dialects, and in all the various periods of the  languages. We may assume a pre- bhḷdó-s, with the meaning ‘bolt, dart’; yet no such word outside the group can be adduced. cannot be immediately akin to boln, ‘to throw, hurl,’ since the  t could not be explained as a  from pre- d. But it is at least possible, on account of the great antiquity of the cognates, that they were borrowed from catapulta and remodelled. <section end="Bolz" /> <section begin="Bombasin" /> ,, ‘bombasine,’ only, from  bombasin, whence also  bombasine; the original word is - bombyx, ‘silkworm, silk.’ <section end="Bombasin" /> <section begin="Bombast" /> ,, borrowed in the 18th from  bombast, which is not cognate <section end="Bombast" />