bolr

• bulr

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Cognate of German Bohle (“thick plank”).

bolr m (genitive bols, plural bolir)

1. trunk (of a tree or the body)

• Icelandic: bolur
• Faroese: bulur
• Norwegian: bol
• Swedish: bål
• → Middle English: bole
  • English: bole

• “bolr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press