köken: Inherited from Middle French bosse, from Old French boce (“protrusion, outgrowth, lump”), from Frankish *bottja. Compare Occitan bòssa, Italian boccia and bozza; cf. also Romanian bot.
aile: baleine à bosse, rouler sa bosse, bosseur m, bosseuse
köken: From Middle Dutch hoevel, huevel, hovel, huffel, from Old Dutch huvil, from Proto-Germanic *hubilaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kewb- (“to bend; a bend, joint”), see also Proto-Germanic *hupiz (“hip”), *hufą (“elevated place, hill”). Cognate with Middle Low German hovel, Old High German hubil, Middle High German hübel, dialectal German Hübel, Luxembourgish Hiwwel. More distantly related…
a Mughal (member of the Muslim dynasty that ruled India from the 16th to the 19th century) · a mogul (rich or powerful businessperson, often within the film or media industry)
köken: Uncertain. Probably of Slavic origin, compare Proto-Slavic *mogyla (“sepulchral cairn”), or an expressive creation based on the root moc-. The word found in Slavic languages seems itself to be of foreign origin. There have been attempts to link it to a Gepid word, but this is unlikely. Compare also Albanian gamulë, and Romanian măgură.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese outeiro, attested since the 9th century as Medieval Latin autarium, auctarium, probably from Latin altārium, from Latin altus (“high”) (compare outo, Montouto (“High-Mount”)). Cognate with Portuguese outeiro and Spanish otero. Doublet of altar.
köken: Etymology tree Esperanto altaĵo Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Middle French -et French -etbor. ▲ Late Latin -ittus Italian -ettobor. Esperanto -et- Esperanto altaĵeto From altaĵo + -et-.
Samuel Meyer (translator), Vojaĝo interne de mia ĉambro (Voyage autour de ma chambre) by Xavier de Maistre, Chapter 11,
Edwin Grobe (translator), “La Partnero de Tenesio” (“Tennessee’s Partner”) by Bret Harte,