bough

Betekenis (Engels)

1. A tree-branch, usually a primary one directly attached to the trunk.
2. (figuratively, obsolete, poetic) A gallows.

Sinonieme

branch

limb

twig

section

chapter

offshoot

sprig

shoot

leg

🦵

limbs

lop

ramus

stalk

stick

branchlet

small branch

banyan

treelimb

boughs

bow

🙇

championship

department

frond

knag

knot

🪢

Vertalings

branche

rameau

Ast

tak

rama

ramo

Zweig

κλαδί

frasca

galho

κλάδος

ramus

virga

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/baʊ/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: bough

Geërf van Old English: bōg

Verwante met Saterfriesisch: Bouch

Verwante met Fries: boech

Verwante met Nederlands: boeg

Verwante met Duits: Bug

Verwante met Deens: bov

Verwante met Yslands: bógur

Verwante met Antieke Grieks: πῆχυς

In summary

PIE word
*bʰeh₂ǵʰús
From Middle English bough (“branch of a bush or tree, especially a main branch; limb of an animal or person; something resembling a branch (such as a plant root or branch of a nerve); (figuratively) Christian cross; descendant, offspring”) [and other forms], from Old English bōg, bōh (“tree bough or branch; arm; shoulder”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōgu, from Proto-Germanic *bōguz (“shoulder; upper arm”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵʰús (“arm”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bouch, West Frisian boech, Dutch boeg, German Low German Boog, German Bug, Danish bov, Icelandic bógur, and distantly with Ancient Greek πῆχυς (pêkhus, “forearm, cubit, etc.”). Doublet of bow ("front of a ship, prow").