bog
Norwegian Nynorsk
/buːɡ/
noun-irreg
Definitions
- shoulder (of an animal)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse bógr (shoulder) inherited from Proto-Germanic *bōguz (shoulder, arm, upper arm) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵʰús (forearm, arm, elbow).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰeh₂ǵʰús
Gloss
forearm, arm, elbow
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
肘
Emoji
🫂
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- boeg Dutch, Flemish
- *bʰeh₂ǵʰus Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰeh₂ǵʰús Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰāǵʰus Proto-Indo-European
- bog Norwegian Bokmål
- *bōguz Proto-Germanic
- bog Old English
- bōh Old English
- बाहु Sanskrit
- bógr Old Norse
- bov Danish
- bógur Icelandic
- buog Old High German
- *buog Old Dutch
- bôch Middle Low German
- *bʰaHȷ́ʰúš Proto-Indo-Iranian
- bogher, bōgher Old Swedish
- boy Westrobothnian