bulk

Bedeutung (English)

Frequenz

C2
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/bʌlk/
Etymologie (English)

In summary

From Middle English bulk, bolke (“a heap, cargo, hold; heap; bulge”), borrowed from Old Norse búlki (“the freight or the cargo of a ship”), from Proto-Germanic *bulkô (“beam, pile, heap”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“beam, pile, prop”). Compare Icelandic búlkast (“to be bulky”), Swedish dialectal bulk (“a bunch”), Danish bulk (“bump, knob”). Conflated with Middle English bouk (“belly, trunk”).

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I   have   already   described   the   appearance   of   that   colossal   bulk   which   was   embedded   in the ground .

Ich habe bereits das Erscheinungsbild dieser kolossalen Masse beschrieben, die in den Boden eingebettet war.