Boden
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Etymology edit
- As a north/Low German surname, derived from the personal name Bode, from the noun meaning "messenger" (Old Saxon bodo).
- As a German surname, from the noun Boden (“bottom”). Compare Bottom.
- As a Swedish surname, from the noun bod (“small hut”). Compare Bodin.
- As a Irish surname, from Ó Buadáin (“descendant of Buadán”), see Bowden.
- As an English surname, variant of Bawden.
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Proper noun edit
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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German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German boden, bodem, from Old High German bodam, from Proto-West Germanic *bodm, 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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Noun edit
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)
Declension edit
Declension of Boden [masculine, strong]
Derived terms edit
- Ackerboden
- Bodenbearbeitung
- Bodenbelag
- Bodenbrett
- Bodenfarbe
- Bodenfrost
- Bodengüte
- Bodenhaftung
- Bodenkultur
- bodenlang
- bodenlos
- Bodennähe
- Bodennebel
- Bodenoffensive
- bodenständig
- Bodenstruktur
- Bodentemperatur
- bodentief
- Bodenübung
- Dachboden
- doppelter Boden
- Erdboden
- Felsboden
- Fußboden
- Meeresboden
- Nachtigallenboden
- Nährboden
- Sandboden
- Steinboden
- Taschenboden
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Swedish edit
Etymology edit
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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Proper noun edit
Boden n (genitive Bodens)
- A town and municipality of Norrbotten County, in northern Sweden
References edit
- ^ Svenskt ortnamnslexikon, Språk- och folkminnesinstitutet, Uppsala, Elanders Gotab, Stockholm 2003, s. 198
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