bæcbord
Old English
noun
Definitions
- (nautical) the larboard or left-hand side of a ship
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *bakaburdaz compound from Old English bæc (back) + Old English bord (table, board, plank, shield, ship, boundary, deck, side, side of a ship).
Origin
Old English
bord
Gloss
table, board, plank, shield, ship, boundary, deck, side, side of a ship
Concept
Semantic Field
The house
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
盾
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- starboard English
- Backbord German
- bakboord Dutch, Flemish
- *bakaburdaz Proto-Germanic
- *baką Proto-Germanic
- *burdą Proto-Germanic
- bord Old English
- bordclaþ Old English
- byrdling Old English
- bæc Old English
- bæcern Old English
- guþbord Old English
- hildebord Old English
- yþbord Old English
- bak Middle English
- boorde Middle English
- bord Middle English
- borde Middle English
- bourd Middle English
- burde Middle English
- bakborði Old Norse
- bagbord Danish
- bòrd Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- babord Norman
- bâbord Norman
- *bak gmw-pro
- *bord gmw-pro
- backbort Middle Low German
- bord Middle Irish
- bord Cornish
- bort Middle Welsh
- bwrt Middle Welsh