Where does “bobou” come from?
bobou (North Moluccan Malay) comes from Malay berbau, from Malay bau, from Malay -i, from English -ee, from French -ée, from Middle French -ee, from Latin -eus, from Ancient Greek -εῖος — Creates adjectives from verb stems.
bobou (North Moluccan Malay): to smell
Definitions
- to smell
Ancestry of “bobou”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Malay | berbau | to smell |
| 2 | Malay | bau | smell; A unit of measure for area on Java,... |
| 3 | Malay | -i | locative, repetitive, or exhaustive; added to... |
| 4 | English | -ee | Added to transitive verbs to form words meaning a... |
| 5 | French | -ée | Forming feminine nouns having the sense of... |
| 6 | Middle French | -ee | forms a feminine noun indicating a quantity or content measured by what the base noun denotes, often translatable as |
| 7 | Latin | -eus | argentum + API → argenteus; ferrum + API →... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -εῖος | Forms adjectives, usually with a meaning of "of"... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -iHwós | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -wós | Creates adjectives from verb stems |