boun
See also: Boun
English edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle English boun, from Old Norse búinn, past participle of búa (“to prepare”).
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Adjective edit
boun (comparative more boun, superlative most boun)
Verb edit
boun (third-person singular simple present bouns, present participle bouning, simple past and past participle bouned)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or get ready; prepare.
- 1815, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lord of the Isles, a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], →OCLC:
- From Cheviot to the shores of Ross,
From Solway-Sands to Marshal's - Moss,
All bouned them for the fight
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “boun”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “boun”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Old Norse búinn, past participle of búa (“to prepare”). Forms with /oː/ are from Old East Norse *bóinn.
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Adjective edit
boun
- Ready, prepared, organised:
- c. 1375, “Book XI”, in Iohne Barbour, De geſtis bellis et uirtutibus domini Roberti de Brwyß […] (The Brus, Advocates MS. 19.2.2)[1], Ouchtirmunſye: Iohannes Ramſay, published 1489, folio 37, verso, lines 69-73; republished at Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, c. 2010:
- To ϸis ϸai all aſſentyt ar / And bad ϸ[air] men all mak ϸai[m] ȝar / For to be boune agayne ϸ[at] day / On ϸe beſt wiß ϸ[at] eu[ir] ϸai may
- To this they'd all assented, / and made their men make themselves ready / to be prepared again that day / in the best way that they're able to.
- Bound, going or ready to go.
- (rare) On the brink of; about to.
- (rare) Close by, adjacent.
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Descendants edit
References edit
- “bǒun, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
boun
- Alternative form of bounen
Scots edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle English boun, from Old Norse búinn, past participle of búa (“prepare”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
boun (comparative mair boun, superlative maist boun)