boul
English
Pronunciation
Noun
boul (plural bouls)
- A curved handle.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “boul”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Antillean Creole
Noun
boul
French
Noun
boul m (plural bouls)
- Abbreviation of boulevard. Alternative form of boul.
Old French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *betullum, *betūle, *betūlus, from Latin betulla, diminutive of Gaulish *betua, from Proto-Celtic *betwiyos, *betuyā (“birch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet-.
Also compare Catalan bedoll, Portuguese bétula, Italian betulla.
Noun
boul oblique singular, m (oblique plural bous or box or bouls, nominative singular bous or box or bouls, nominative plural boul)
- birch (tree)
Descendants
- French: bouleau
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (boul)
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