Where does “boender” come from?

boender (Dutch) comes from Dutch boenen, from Middle Dutch boenen, from Old Dutch bōnon, from Proto-West Germanic bōnōn — to make shiny.

boender (Dutch): a brush, a scrub

Definitions

  1. a brush, a scrub

Ancestry of “boender”, step by step

boender traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Dutch boenen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dutchboenento scrub, polish
2Middle Dutchboenen—
3Old Dutchbōnon—
4Proto-West Germanicbōnōnto make shiny

via Dutch er

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dutcherthere; him, her, it, them; of them, of those
2Old Dutchiro—

Words derived from “boender”

Every word from Proto-West Germanic bōnōn →Every word from Old Dutch bōnon →Every word from Middle Dutch boenen →