köken: Inherited from Middle French borde (“bragging, story contrived to impress”), from Vulgar Latin *burda (“contrived falsehood”), attested in a Late Latin glossary as the verb burdit (“brags, boasts”). Cognate to Provençal borda (“lie, falsehood”). Uncertain whether related to Late Latin burda (“reed, rush”) or to Medieval Latin burdus, burdō (“mule”). Geographical distribution suggests a Gaulish…
to blunder (to make a blunder, to make a clumsy or stupid mistake)
köken: From bak (“buck”) + -ot (accusative suffix) + lő (“to shoot”), literally “to shoot a buck”, a calque of German einen Bock schießen. Its origin in German is related to 16th century competitions organized in shooting associations where the lowest ranked shooter received a he-goat as a consolation prize.
köken: From Proto-Indo-Aryan *sráydʰati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sráydʰati, from Proto-Indo-European *sléydʰ-e-ti, from *sleydʰ- (“slippery”). Cognate with Old English slīdan (whence English slide).