Boll

boll bòll Bøll bøll Böll böll English Alternative forms en Boell Etymology en gem As a Danish and German surname, from en da Bøll, en de Böll. Also as a German surname, from the personal name en Baldo (see en Bold). Compare en Boell. As an English surname, variant of en Bull. Also as an English surname, from the noun en bowl. Compare en Bowler. As a Scottish surname, variant of en Boyle. Proper noun s en Germanic languages. en German. en Danish. Further reading en Boll (surname) Low German Alternative forms nds Bolle Bollen Etymology From nds gml bolle, from nds osx bollo, from nds gem-pro *bullô, gem-pro *bullǭ. More at en bowl. The anatomical sense probably developed under influence of gml bille (cf. nl bil). Noun m,f Bollen nds GLG bun, roll nds botany bulb nds Westphalia thigh, buttock Luxembourgish Etymology From lb gmh bolle, from lb goh bolla, from lb gem-pro *bullǭ. The sense “bowl” is inherited in many dialects of Central Franconian and even further east in Hessian Rhine Franconian. Therefore there is no reason to consider it a borrowing from fr bol, which is itself a rather late borrowing from English. Pronunciation lb /bol/ lb ol 1 Noun f bowl, dish ladle Plautdietsch Etymology From pdt gml bulle, from pdt osx *bulo, from pdt gem-pro *bulô. Noun m Bulls bull Hypernyms pdt Rintvee Derived terms pdt Bollkaulf bolsch pdt 1-syllable words pdt Cattle Male animals