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novapsycheBoor, a peasant. (Dutch.) Dutch boer, a peasant, literally 'a tiller of the soil'. = Dutch bouwen, to till. + Anglo-Saxon buan to till, to dwell, whence bur, gebur, a peasant (only preserved in neigh-bour). So also German bauen, to till; whence bauer, a peasant.
bondage, servitude. (French = Scandinavian.) Middle English and French bondage, servitude; the sense being due to confusion with the verb to bind. But it originally meant the condition of a bondman, called in Anglo-Saxon bonda, a word borrowed from Icelandic bondi, a husbandman. And bondi=buandi, a tiller; from Icelandic bua, to till, prepare, cognate with Anglo-Saxon buan.
bondage, servitude. (French = Scandinavian.) Middle English and French bondage, servitude; the sense being due to confusion with the verb to bind. But it originally meant the condition of a bondman, called in Anglo-Saxon bonda, a word borrowed from Icelandic bondi, a husbandman. And bondi=buandi, a tiller; from Icelandic bua, to till, prepare, cognate with Anglo-Saxon buan.