boud
English
Etymology
From Middle English boude, bude, budde, from Old English budda (“beetle”).
Noun
boud (plural bouds)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “boud”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Noun
boud (plural boude)
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch bout, from Old Dutch *bald, from Proto-Germanic *balþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, swell, inflate”). Compare English bold.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
boud (comparative bouder, superlative boudst)
Inflection
Declension of boud | ||||
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uninflected | boud | |||
inflected | boude | |||
comparative | bouder | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | boud | bouder | het boudst het boudste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | boude | boudere | boudste |
n. sing. | boud | bouder | boudste | |
plural | boude | boudere | boudste | |
definite | boude | boudere | boudste | |
partitive | bouds | bouders | — |
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