buoy

Signification (Anglais)

1. A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational channel or for other purposes
2. A life-buoy; a life preserver.

bouée

balise

balise flottante

channel marker

be floating

float bowl

floating beacon

sea mark

floating mark

float rod

floating camel

floating pontoon

buoyancy pontoon

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈbɔɪ/

From Middle English boy, boye, from Middle Dutch boeye (“float, buoy”), from Old French boue (“piece of wood or cork that floats above an anchor to indicate where it is anchored”) (modern French bouée), ultimately from Frankish *baukn (“beacon”). Doublet of beacon. Alternatively, and perhaps less likely (due to the unexplained shift in meaning), from Middle Dutch boeye (“shackle, fetter”), from Old French buie (“fetter, chain”), from Latin boia (“a (leather) collar, band, fetter”), from Ancient Greek βόεος (bóeos), βόειος (bóeios, “of ox-hide”), from βοῦς (boûs, “ox”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cow”).