Etymology

BOE

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Today it means: A surname. Full definition →

Old Norse býr
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived frombýr“farm”
  2. English todayBoe

* As a Swedish surname, from bo (“farm”). * As a Norwegian surname, from Bø, Bøe, from Old Norse býr (“farm”), related to above. * As a Danish surname, from Bo, from the Norse name Búi. * As a Dutch and German surname, reduced from Bode. * As a West Frisian surname, from the name Boye.

Words from the same roots

Old Norsebýr all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.