bót.
betterment, improvement, cure
Meaning & usage
betterment, improvement, cure
patch
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Old Norse bót, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō (“recompense”). Cognates include Old Swedish bōt (“improvement”) whence Swedish bot (“fine”). Compare also Bót- in the names Bótey, Bóthildur and Bótólfur, Swedish Boel and Bodil and Danish Bodil. Related to Proto-Germanic *batiz (“good; better”), itself ultimately going back to Proto-Indo-European *bʰed- (“improve, make better”) (sometimes reconstructed as **bʰ(e)Hd-).
bight, cove, inlet, small bay
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz. Doublet of bugt, a loanword.
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