Where does “bockla” come from?
bockla (Cornish) comes from Cornish bockyl, from English buckle, from English buckling, from German Bückling, from German bücken, from German biegen, from Middle High German biegen, from Old High German biogan — to bend.
bockla (Cornish): to buckle
Definitions
- to buckle
Ancestry of “bockla”, step by step
bockla traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Cornish bockyl
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cornish | bockyl | buckle |
| 2 | English | buckle | To distort or collapse under physical pressure;... |
| 3 | English | buckling | The act of fastening a buckle; A folding into... |
| 4 | German | Bückling | red herring; bow; bootlicker; coward |
| 5 | German | bücken | to bend down, to stoop |
| 6 | German | biegen | to bend something; to bend; to be bent; to turn;... |
| 7 | Middle High German | biegen | to bow; to bend |
| 8 | Old High German | biogan | to bow; to bend or curve |
| 9 | Proto-West Germanic | beugan | to bend, to become bent |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | beuganą | to bend, bow |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰūgʰ- | to bend |
via Cornish a
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cornish | a | Marks the following verb to the preceding... |