boil

(Inglese)

Opposto di
condense, freeze
Frequenza

C1
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/bɔɪl/
Etimologia (Inglese)

In summary

From Middle English bile, büle (“boil, tumor”), from Old English bȳl, bȳle (“boil, swelling”), from Proto-Germanic *būlijō, *būlō (“boil”). Akin to Dutch buil (“boil, swelling”), German Beule (“boil, hump”), Icelandic beyla (“swelling, hump”). The expected form is bile; the rounding of the diphthong could be caused by the initial b- and/or by association with etymology 2.

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