Boden
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Boden
- An English surname common in Shropshire and the West Midlands area of central England.
- A town and municipality of Norrbotten County, in northern Sweden
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EtymologyEdit
From Middle High German boden, bodem, from Old High German bodam, from Proto-Germanic *budm-, a variant of *butmaz (whence English bottom, which see for more), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn.
Cognate with English bottom, Dutch bodem, Hunsrik Boddem. Doublet of Bodden, a loanword from Low German.
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Boden m (strong, genitive Bodens, plural Böden)
- (uncountable) ground, soil
- heiliger Boden ― hallowed ground
- 2021 March 10, Jack McGovan, “Autoreifen aus Löwenzahn - eine ökologische Alternative?”, in Deutsche Welle[1] (article), retrieved 1 July 2022:
- Russischer Löwenzahn gedeiht auch auf kargen, nährstoffarmen Böden, so dass sein Anbau nicht mit landwirtschaftlicher Nutzfläche konkurriert.
- 2021 March 10, Jack McGovan, Could rubber from dandelions make tires more sustainable?, in Deutsche Welle [2] (article), retrieved 1 July 2022:
The Russian dandelion can also be grown on relatively poor soils, meaning it doesn't have to compete with agriculture.
- 2021 March 10, Jack McGovan, Could rubber from dandelions make tires more sustainable?, in Deutsche Welle [2] (article), retrieved 1 July 2022:
- 2010, Der Spiegel[3], number 28/2010, page 70:
- Die erste Staatspleite auf europäischem Boden seit Jahrzehnten konnte nur verhindert werden, weil die übrigen Länder der Euro-Zone dem strauchelnden Mitglied mit Milliarden-Krediten beisprangen.
- The first state bankruptcy on European soil for decades could only be avoided because the remaining countries of the Eurozone came to the stumbling member's assistance with billions in credit.
- (uncountable) sea bottom (typically called Meeresboden)
- (countable) any defined type of soil
- (countable) floor
- (countable) attic, garret, loft
- (countable, colloquial) flooring, floor cover (often used in this sense in compound nouns: Teppichboden, Parkettboden)
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Declension of Boden [masculine, strong]
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EtymologyEdit
The dative plural Bodom is attested 1543, a definite form of the plural of boden, from bod (“shed, shack”), possibly referring to shacks in the village.[1]
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Boden n (genitive Bodens)
- A town and municipality of Norrbotten County, in northern Sweden
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- ^ Svenskt ortnamnslexikon, Språk- och folkminnesinstitutet, Uppsala, Elanders Gotab, Stockholm 2003, s. 198