bordon

See also: Bordon

English

Noun

bordon (plural bordons)

1. Alternative form of bourdon (“pilgrim's staff”)

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Esperanto

Noun

bordon

1. accusative singular of bordo

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Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈporːton/

Verb

bordon

1. first-person singular imperative of bordit

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Middle English

Noun

bordon

1. Alternative form of burdoun (“pilgrim's staff”)

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Old French

Etymology

Of uncertain origin; 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 oblique singular, m (oblique plural bordons, nominative singular bordons, nominative plural bordon)

1. bumblebee
2. a sort of musical instrument

Descendants

• French: bourdon
• → Galician: bordón
• → Middle English: burdoun, bordoun, burdon, burdowne
  • English: burden, bourdon
  • → Irish: burdún

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (bordon)
• “bordon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.