boetseren.
to model (usually with clay)
Meaning & usage
to model (usually with clay)
Where this word comes from
From earlier bootsen, from Middle French bocer, bosser, from Picard Old French bocer (“to form, make a work of art in relief”), from boce (“protrusion, outgrowth, lump”), from Latin *bottia, from Frankish *bottja, from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to thrust, knock, bump”). Compare Middle Dutch bootse (“bump, swelling”), Italian bozza (“a draft or proof (of a document)”), Italian sbozzo (“a sketch)”), and Portuguese esboço (“a sketch”). Related to Dutch boots (“image, figure, sculpture, model, sketch”).
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