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Where does “boudin” come from?

boudin (English) comes from French boudin, from Middle French boudin, from Old French boudin, from Latin botellus, from Latin -lus, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

boudin (English): A kind of blood sausage in French, Belgian,...

Definitions

  1. A kind of blood sausage in French, Belgian,...

Ancestry of “boudin”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchboudinblood sausage, black pudding; tube, ring; fatty,...
2Middle Frenchboudin—
3Old Frenchboudinblood sausage, black pudding
4Latinbotellusa small sausage
5Latin-lusAlternative form of -ulus; diminutive suffix
6Proto-Italic-elos—
7Proto-Indo-European-e-lós—
8Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots
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