bote
English
/bəʊt/, /boʊt/
noun
Definitions
- The atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.
- A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
- A right to take wood from property not one's own.
Etymology
Derived from Old English bōt (remedy, relief, atonement, help, repentance, recompense, advantage, compensation for an injury wrong, penance, offering, amends, reformation, remediation) derived from Proto-Germanic *bōtō (recompense, improvement, atonement).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*bōtō
Gloss
recompense, improvement, atonement
Kanji
償
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- burgh English
- burghbote English
- cart English
- cartbote English
- fire English
- firebote English
- hedge English
- hedgebote English
- house English
- housebote English
- maegbot English
- maegbote English
- man English
- manbote English
- mæg English
- plough English
- ploughbote English
- plow English
- plowbote English
- theft English
- theftbote English
- Buße German
- Bußsakrament German
- GAS-boete Dutch, Flemish
- boete Dutch, Flemish
- boetedoening Dutch, Flemish
- boeteling Dutch, Flemish
- boeteprediker Dutch, Flemish
- geldboete Dutch, Flemish
- parkeerboete Dutch, Flemish
- *bōtō Proto-Germanic
- bot Old English
- botettan Old English
- botian Old English
- botleas Old English
- botwierþe Old English
- brycgbot Old English
- burhbot Old English
- bōt Old English
- ciricbot Old English
- cynebot Old English
- dædbot Old English
- eftbot Old English
- feohbot Old English
- fæhþbot Old English
- hadbot Old English
- hloþbot Old English
- mǣgbōt Old English
- synbot Old English
- boote Middle English
- bote Middle English
- burghbote Middle English
- bót Old Norse
- ᛒᚢᛏ, non Old Norse
- boete Middle Dutch
- buoz Old High German
- buoza Old High German
- buoze Middle High German
- Bouss Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- 𐌱𐍉𐍄𐌰 Gothic
- *bōta Old Dutch