English
bouchon
Bouchon comes from French bouchon ‘cork, bung, stopper, plug’, from Middle French bouchon ‘bundle of hemp or foliage, oakum’, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic *buskaz ‘bush’.
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*buskaz‘bush’reconstructed
- Frankishc. 250–700*bosc‘bush’reconstructed
- Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CEbosca‘brush, bundle of branches’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600bouchon‘bundle of hemp or foliage, oakum’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentsame form‘cork, bung, stopper, plug’
- Englishearliest quotation 1892same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*buskaz‘bush’reconstructed
- Frankishc. 250–700*bosc‘bush’reconstructed
- Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CEbosca‘brush, bundle of branches’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600bouchon‘bundle of hemp or foliage, oakum’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentsame form‘cork, bung, stopper, plug’
- Englishearliest quotation 1892same form
Earliest quotation: 1892, Frederick James Britten, The watch & clockmakers' handbook: “After repairing the pivot a bouchon is selected as…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- ‘to swell, grow’
be, been, power, possible, future, present, build, physical, improve, presence, essential, absence, contribution, physician, entity, approve, bond, probability, absent, bound, booth, favorable, distribute, fiat, contributor, bun, favourable, imp, retribution, attribution, impotent, impossibility, aren, bower, beamer, phylogeny, physic, phylum, approbation, bist, 80 more
through Proto-Germanic *buskaz ‘bush’
Today it means
noun A piece of tubing forming the pivot holes in watch and clock plates.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *buskaz / bouchon