Etymograph

English

hoboy

Hoboy comes from French hautbois ‘oboe’, from bois ‘high (pitched) wood(wind)’, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*buskaz‘thicket, brushwood, small wood’reconstructed
  2. Frenchc. 1600–presentbois‘high (pitched) wood(wind)’
  3. French, derivedc. 1600–presenthautbois‘oboe’
  4. Englishtodayhoboy

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*buskaz‘thicket, brushwood, small wood’reconstructed
  2. Frenchc. 1600–presentbois‘high (pitched) wood(wind)’
  3. French, derivedc. 1600–presenthautbois‘oboe’
  4. Englishtodayhoboy

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- ‘to swell, grow’

be, been, power, possible, future, present, build, physical, improve, presence, essential, absence, contribution, bond, physician, bound, entity, approve, absent, favorable, probability, booth, distribute, contributor, fiat, bun, favourable, retribution, attribution, imp, impotent, impossibility, aren, bower, beamer, phylogeny, physic, phylum, approbation, bist, 80 more

through Proto-Germanic *buskaz ‘thicket, brushwood, small wood’

bush, bouquet, rebuke, bosque, busk, 13 more

Today it means

noun A hautboy or oboe.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *buskaz / hoboy

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