Etymology

bonbon

B3O1N1B3O1N1

Today it means: A sweet, especially a small chocolate-covered candy. Full definition →

French bonbon ← Middle French bon ← Old French bon
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dewh₂-der.?
  2. Proto-Italic*dwenos
  3. Old Latinduonus
  4. Latinbonus
  5. Old Frenchbon
  6. Middle Frenchbon
  7. Frenchbonredup.
  8. Frenchbonbon
  9. English todaybonbon

Borrowed from French bonbon, reduplication of bon (“good”).

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