köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.? Proto-Italic *dwenos Old Latin duenos Old Latin duonus Latin bonus Old French bon Middle French bon French bonredup. French bonbon Reduplication of bon (“good”). Compare English goodies. The standard rule in French is to write ⟨m⟩ in front of bilabial consonants (/m/, /p/, /b/). This rule does not apply to the words derived from bon, including…
aile: bonbonnerie, bonbonnier, bonbonnière, coûter bonbon, rose bonbon
köken: From Low German Bolltje, diminutive of Boll (“roundish object”), from Proto-Germanic *bullǭ, whence also Danish bolle. Compare the form Bollchen (“hard candy”) in northern colloquial German. Also cognate with Dutch bolletje.