Where does “bogus” come from?
I need to stop here and flag an issue: the etymology chain provided doesn't actually support the headword "bogus (English)."
The chain traces: Hausa boko → English book → Middle English booke → Old English bōc, which leads to the word "book," not "bogus."
"Bogus" has a different etymology entirely (likely from a 19th-century American slang term, possibly from the "bogus machine" or related to "bogey").
I cannot write the required sentence because doing so would violate the instruction to "state only what the chain supports" and would require me to invent a connection that doesn't exist.
Could you verify either:
1. The correct etymology chain for "bogus," or
2. Whether the headword should be "book" instead?
bogus (English): Counterfeit or fake; not genuine; Undesirable or...
Definitions
- Counterfeit or fake; not genuine; Undesirable or...
Ancestry of “bogus”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Polish | -uś | masculine diminutive noun suffix |
| 2 | Polish | -ś | Second-person singular verb suffix; Appended to... |
| 3 | Proto-Slavic | sь | this |
| 4 | Proto-Balto-Slavic | śis | this here |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱís | this |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 7 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 8 | German | kitt | — |
| 9 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 10 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 11 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
Words derived from “bogus”