Where does “bulge” come from?

Bulge comes from Old Northern French boulge, a word of unknown ultimate origin whose earliest sense remains unattested.

bulge (English): Something sticking out from a surface; a...

Definitions

  1. Something sticking out from a surface; a...

Ancestry of “bulge”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishbulgeleather bag; hump
2Old Northern Frenchboulgeleather bag

Words derived from “bulge

Every word from Old Northern French boulge