boud
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English boude, bude, budde, from Old English budda (“beetle”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
boud (plural bouds)
- (obsolete) A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc.
- 1557 February 13, Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie., London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
- bowd-eaten malt
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Noun edit
boud (plural boude)
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Dutch bout, from Old Dutch *bald, from Proto-West Germanic *balþ, from Proto-Germanic *balþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, swell, inflate”). Compare English bold.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
boud (comparative bouder, superlative boudst)
Inflection edit
| Inflection of boud | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | boud | |||
| inflected | boude | |||
| comparative | bouder | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | boud | bouder | het boudst het boudste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | boude | boudere | boudste |
| n. sing. | boud | bouder | boudste | |
| plural | boude | boudere | boudste | |
| definite | boude | boudere | boudste | |
| partitive | bouds | bouders | — | |