bordon

See also: Bordon

English

Noun

bordon (plural bordons)

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

Esperanto

Noun

bordon

1. accusative singular of bordo

Middle English

Noun

bordon

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

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈporːton/

Verb

bordon

1. 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 *buʀdō (“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

• Middle French: bourdon
  • 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.