Where does “embosk” come from?
embosk (English) comes from English bosk, from Middle English bosk, from Middle English bush, from Old English busċ, from Latin bosca, from Late Latin busca, from Proto-West Germanic busk, from Proto-Germanic buskaz — to become, grow, appear.
embosk (English): to hide or conceal in leaves
Definitions
- to hide or conceal in leaves
Ancestry of “embosk”, step by step
embosk traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English bosk
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | bosk | A bush; A thicket; a small wood |
| 2 | Middle English | bosk | — |
| 3 | Middle English | bush | grove, wood; thicket, underbrush; bush; branch of... |
| 4 | Old English | busċ | — |
| 5 | Latin | bosca | firewood |
| 6 | Late Latin | busca | — |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | busk | bush, thicket |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | buskaz | bush; thicket |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰuH- | to become, grow, appear |
via English em
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | em | The name of the Latin-script letter M; A unit of... |
| 2 | English | them | Those ones; Him, her, or it; that one; Those |
| 3 | Middle English | þem | Third-person plural accusative pronoun: them;... |
| 4 | Old Norse | þeim | them, those |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | þaimaz | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | sa | that |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | só | this; that |