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…
köken: Borrowed from English blunder, from Middle English blonder, blundur (“disturbance, strife”), from Old Norse blunda (“to shut the eyes”). Related to blind.
köken: Inherited from Hellenistic Koine Greek λάθος (láthos, “escaping detection”), with stem λαθ-, from the aorist of Ancient Greek λανθάνω (lanthánō, “to escape notice, to forget”), from *leh₂- (“to be hidden, be covered”).