Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• boku

Noun

boce

1. locative singular of bok

Old French

Alternative forms

• boche (Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French)

Etymology

Uncertain. Either from Frankish *bottja, Latin *bottia ‎(“bump”)^[1], or from Late Latin *buttia, from buttis. All of which are unattested^[2].

Noun

boce m ‎(oblique plural boces, nominative singular boces, nominative plural boce)

1. swelling (for example, due to injury or illness)

Descendants

• English: boss (lump; swelling)
• Middle French: bosse
  • French: bosse

References

• (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (boce, supplement)

1. ↑ (fr)(de) *bottia in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (Walther von Wartburg, 2002)
2. ↑ “bosse” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).