bolle
Albanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *bālnai, from Proto-Indo-European *bhḷəno. Compare Ancient Greek φαλλός (phallós, “penis”), Latin follis (“bellows”), Old Irish ball (“limb, member, part, body part”)[1], Old High German ballo, balla (“buttocks”). Occurs exclusively in the plural form.
References
- Orel, Vladimir (2000) A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, Leiden: Brill, page 30
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɔlə/, [ˈb̥ʌlə]
Inflection
Etymology 2
From the obsolete bolle ("bull"), or a variant of bole (“to whore”).
Neapolitan
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bollɐ/
Norman
Pronunciation
Audio (Jersey) (file)
Synonyms
Norwegian Bokmål
Derived terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Derived terms
- bakebolle
- kjøtbolle, kjøttbolle
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *bullǭ (“ball, round object, shell”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰln-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, inflate, swell, bubble”). Cognate with Old Frisian bolla (“goblet”), Old Saxon bollo (“goblet”), Old High German bolla (“round vessel, bowl”), Old Norse bolli (“goblet, cup”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbol.le/, [ˈboɫːe]
Declension
Synonyms
West Frisian
Further reading
- “bolle (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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