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Boden
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boden Böden
English
Etymology
As a north/en nds - surname, derived from the personal name en Bode, from the noun meaning "messenger" (en osx bodo).
As a en de - surname, from the noun de Boden bottom. Compare en Bottom.
As a en sv - surname, from the noun sv bod small hut. Compare en Bodin.
As an en ga - surname, from ga Ó Buadáin descendant of Buadán, see en Bowden.
As an English surname, variant of en Bawden.
Pronunciation
en /ˈbəʊdən/ UK
en /ˈboʊdən/ GA
en əʊdən 2
en Bowden Bowdon
Proper noun
en English common in Shropshire and the West Midlands area of central England.
en town/and/mun in co:Suf/Norrbotten northern c/Sweden.
en mun in dist/Westerwaldkreis s/Rhineland-Palatinate c/Germany.
en ucomm twp:Suf/Preemption co/Mercer County s/Illinois c/USA.
en ucomm co/Guernsey County s/Ohio c/USA, named after William E. Boden.
Derived terms
en Boden's mate
Translations
town and municipality in Sweden
Swedish: sv Boden n
municipality in Germany
German: de Boden
See also
Anagrams
en bdeno Bonde boned
German
Etymology
From de gmh boden, gmh bodem, from de goh bodam, from de gmw-pro *bodm, from de gem-pro *budm-, a variant of gem-pro *butmaz (whence en bottom, which see for more), from de ine-pro *bʰudʰmḗn.
Cognate with en bottom, nl bodem, hrx Boddem. de Bodden, a loanword from Low German.
Pronunciation
de /ˈboːdn̩/
de oːdn̩ 2
de De-at-Boden.ogg Austria
de De-Boden.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Noun
m,,^
de uncountable ground, soil
de heiliger Boden hallowed ground
de Jack McGovan Autoreifen aus Löwenzahn - eine ökologische Alternative? https://p.dw.com/p/3qNZx article Deutsche Welle 10 March 2021 1 July 2022 Russischer Löwenzahn gedeiht auch auf kargen, nährstoffarmen Böden, so dass sein Anbau nicht mit landwirtschaftlicher Nutzfläche konkurriert. 2021 March 10, Jack McGovan, Could rubber from dandelions make tires more sustainable?, in Deutsche Welle (article), retrieved 1 July 2022: The Russian dandelion can also be grown on relatively poor soils, meaning it doesn't have to compete with agriculture.
de 2010 w:Der Spiegel http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/index-2010-28.html 28/2010 70 Die erste Staatspleite auf europäischem Boden seit Jahrzehnten konnte nur verhindert werden, weil die übrigen Länder der Euro-Zone dem strauchelnden Mitglied mit Milliarden-Krediten beisprangen. The first state bankruptcy on European soil for decades could only be avoided because the remaining countries of the Eurozone came to the stumbling member's assistance with billions in credit.
de uncountable sea bottom (typically called de Meeresboden)
de countable any defined type of soil
de countable floor
de countable attic, garret, loft
de countable colloquial flooring, floor cover (often used in this sense in compound nouns: de Teppichboden, de Parkettboden)
Declension
m,,^
Derived terms
de bodenlang bodenlos bodentief Bodenbearbeitung Bodenbelag Bodenbewohner Bodenbrett Bodenhaftung Bodenfarbe Bodenfrost Bodengüte Bodenkultur Bodennähe Bodennebel Bodenoffensive Bodenstruktur bodenständig Bodentemperatur Bodenübung Ackerboden Dachboden doppelter Boden Fußboden Erdboden Nährboden Sandboden Steinboden Felsboden Meeresboden Nachtigallenboden Taschenboden
See also
de Grund
de Flur
de Senke
de Tal
Further reading
Swedish
sv:
Etymology
The dative plural sv Bodom is attested 1543, a definite form of the plural of sv boden, from sv bod shed, shack, possibly referring to shacks in the village.Svenskt ortnamnslexikon, Språk- och folkminnesinstitutet, Uppsala, Elanders Gotab, Stockholm 2003, s. 198
Pronunciation
sv /ˈbuːdɛn/
sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Boden.wav
Proper noun
n
sv town/and/municipality co:Suf/Norrbotten in northern c/Sweden
References
Anagrams
sv bdeno bonde