Feminine

Bohle

Meaning

thick board or plank

Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

flägglig

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

flegglig

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈboːlə/
Etymology

In summary

15th century, either from or akin to Middle Low German bōle (“thick board”, 14th c.), probably from Proto-Germanic *bulaz (“trunk; plank”), and cognate with Middle Dutch bolle, Old Norse bolr (see there for more), English bole (all “tree trunk”), and further with the family of Bolle (“round object”), Ball (“ball”).

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