bordon
See also: Bordon
English
Noun
bordon (plural bordons)
- Alternative form of bourdon (“pilgrim's staff”)
Esperanto
Noun
bordon
- accusative singular of bordo
Middle English
Noun
bordon
- Alternative form of burdoun (“pilgrim's staff”)
Northern Sami
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈporːton/
Verb
bordon
- first-person singular imperative of bordit
Old French
Etymology
Uncertain; possibly onomatopoeic, dating as early as Late Latin burdo, burdonis (“kind of grasshopper”), possibly from Frankish *bordo, *burdo (“beetle, insect”), from Proto-Germanic *buzdô (“beetle, grub", literally, "swelling”), from *būs- (“to erupt, burst, flow rapidly”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūs- (“to move quickly”).
Noun
bordon m (oblique plural bordons, nominative singular bordons, nominative plural bordon)
- bumblebee
- a sort of musical instrument
Descendants
- French: bourdon
- → Galician: bordón
- → Middle English: burdoun, bordoun, burdon, burdowne
- English: burden, bourdon
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (bordon)
- “bordon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.