Etymology

borborygm

bor·bo·rygm
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Today it means: A gurgling or rumbling noise produced by gas in the bowels. Full definition →

French borborygme ← Ancient Greek βορβορυγμός
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromβορβορυγμός“(onomatopoeic) borborygmus”
  2. French · borrowed fromborborygme
  3. English todayborborygm

Borrowed from French borborygme, ultimately from Ancient Greek βορβορυγμός (borborugmós, “(onomatopoeic) borborygmus”), from βορβορύζω (borborúzō, “to experience borborygmus”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekβορβορυγμός all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.