köken: From ба́ять (bájatʹ) (or related to балабо́л (balaból), балабо́лить (balabólitʹ)) + гу́ркать (gúrkatʹ) (related to го́вор (góvor), говори́ть (govorítʹ)). For the similar meaning development compare Latin iocus (“a joke, a jest”) from Proto-Indo-European *yek- (“to speak”).
clown, acrobat, entertainer, performer · mask in traditional plays
köken: First attested in the History of Goryeo (고려사/高麗史), 1451, as Middle Korean 廣大 (Yale: kwangtay). The History is written based on earlier sources and the word is cited in relation to an early 14th-century figure, so the word was probably used at that time. : The hanja form 廣大, sometimes still used, is unetymological. In the hangul script, first attested in the Hunmong jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527, as…
köken: First attested in 1835. bohó (“playful, foolish”) + -c (noun-forming suffix). Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.