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: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese burges, from Medieval Latin burgēnsis, from burgus + -ēnsis. Equivalent to burgo + -ês and piecewise doublet of burguense. Compare Galician and Spanish burgués, Catalan burgès, French bourgeois and Italian borghese.
köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek βασιλιάς < βασιλέας (basiléas) with synizesis [ʎa] to avoid hiatus. From Ancient Greek βασιλεύς (basileús, “king, leader, prince, emperor”), from Proto-Hellenic *gʷatiléus; the word, attested in some form since Mycenaean times, is of uncertain ultimate etymology; possibly of Anatolian origin. Also see βασίλισσα (basílissa, “queen”).
köken: From Old Swedish knøs (“troll”). Likely originated from knös (“lump”). If so, cognate with Norwegian knaus, Icelandic hnaus. Possibly doublet of knoge.