Etymograph

English

budge

Budge comes from Vulgar Latin *bullicāre ‘to bubble’, from Latin bullio ‘to boil’, and ultimately from bulla ‘bubble’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEbulla‘bubble’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEbullioas bullīre‘to boil’
  3. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*bullicāre‘to bubble’reconstructed
  4. Old Frenchc. 842–1400bougier
  5. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600bouger
  6. Englishearliest quotation c. 1590–1592budge

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEbulla‘bubble’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEbullioas bullīre‘to boil’
  3. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*bullicāre‘to bubble’reconstructed
  4. Old Frenchc. 842–1400bougier
  5. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600bouger
  6. Englishearliest quotation c. 1590–1592budge

Earliest quotation: c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew: “Ile not budge an inch boy: Let him come,…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- ‘to sound’

ball, bell, bold, flame, bald, blaze, bale, blush, blur, blizzard, bleach, bolster, sabha, blemish, phlegm, phallus, blithe, phlox, blain, buller, bleat, bolas, 71 more

through Latin bulla ‘bubble’

bill, bowl, bull, bola, bouillon, bolero, 14 more

through Latin bullio ‘to boil’

boil, ebullient, 6 more

through Middle French bouger

boogie

Another origin of budge

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰelǵʰ-‘to swell’root as named
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CE*bogeareconstructed
  3. Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400bogé
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500bouge
  5. Englishtodaybudge

Today it means

verb To move; to be shifted from a fixed position.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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