köken: From Middle High German buoze, from Old High German buoza, from Proto-West Germanic *bōtu, akin to Old Saxon bōta and Dutch boete. More at English bote, boot.
penitence (regret or remorse for doing wrong or sinning) · punishment (penalty to punish wrongdoing) · confession (disclosure of one’s sins to a priest for absolution)
köken: From Old Swedish bōt (“improvement”), from Old Norse ᛒᚢᛏ (but) (in the Latin script bót) whence also Icelandic bót), from Proto-Germanic *bōtō. Akin to English boot (“remedy, profit”). Masculine in Late Modern Swedish.
köken: From Old Danish bōð, from Old East Norse bóð, from Proto-Germanic *bōþō (“building, dwelling”), cognate with Old West Norse búð, English booth, German Bude.
köken: From Middle Irish aithrige, from Old Irish aithirge, the verbal noun of ad·eirrig (“to improve”), from ath- + ar- + Proto-Celtic *regeti (compare at·reig (“to rise”)).
aile: aithríoch, oifig aithrí, sagart aithrí
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