bú

Icelandic

/puː/

noun
Definitions
  • housekeeping
  • farm
  • estate

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse bú (farm stock, a farm, farming, farm, town, dwelling, settled area) root from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (grow, become, be, appear, come into being, rise up, exist, thrive, curve, happen, live, bend, swell, dwell, prosper).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*bʰuH-

Gloss

grow, become, be, appear, come into being, rise up, exist, thrive, curve, happen, live, bend, swell, dwell, prosper

Concept
Semantic Field

Spatial relations

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

曲

Emoji
🌱 💗 🪴

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