bowl

bowl · noun¹

1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*bullǭ“ball, round vessel, bowl”
2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*bollā
3. Old English · inherited frombolla
4. Middle English · inherited frombolle
5. English todaybowl

From Middle English bolle, from Old English bolla, bolle (“bowl, cup, pot, beaker, measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *bollā, from Proto-Germanic *bullǭ (“ball, round vessel, bowl”). Cognate with North Frisian bol (“bun, bread roll”), Middle Low German bolle, bole (“round object”), Dutch bol (“ball, sphere, scoop, dot”), German Bolle (“bulb”), Danish bolle (“bowl, bread roll”), Icelandic bolli (“cup”). Doublet of boule and pulla.

bowl · noun, verb²

1. Latin · derived frombulla“bubble, stud, round object”
2. Old French · derived fromboule“ball”
3. Middle English · inherited frombowle
4. English todaybowl

From Middle English bowle, boule, from Old French boule (“ball”), from Latin bulla (“bubble, stud, round object”). Doublet of poll.

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