Femminile

borne

Senso

Concetti

(Inglese)

(feminine) bollard such as those used to restrict automobiles off a pedestrian area
(feminine) territorial boundary marker
(feminine) territorial or geographical border
(feminine) milestone such as those alongside a roadway
(feminine, slang) a kilometre; a click
(feminine) mark
(feminine) limit of a list or of an interval
(feminine) machine

Frequenza

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/bɔʁn/

Ereditato da francese antico

bontie

In summary

Inherited from Old French bontie, bodne, from Medieval Latin (Merovingian) bodina, butina (“limit, boundary”), a Celtic/Transalpine Gaulish borrowing, from Proto-Celtic *bonnicca (“boundary”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom, base”), see also *bundos.