The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromβύρσα
- Latin · derived frombursa
- Old French · derived fromborse
- Middle French · borrowed frombourse
- English todayburse
Borrowed from Middle French bourse, from Old French borse, from Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa). Doublet of purse, compare French bourse (“purse, fund”).
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchborse all →
bourse
Latinbursa all →
boursebursiform
Ancient Greekβύρσα all →
purseboursebursasporran
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.