Boon
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boon¹
- /buːn/
Rhymes with -uːn
Where it comes from
From Middle English boon (“prayer”), from Old Norse bón (“prayer, petition”), from Proto-Germanic *bōniz (“supplication”), influenced by boon (“good, favorable”, adjective). Doublet of ben; see there for more.
noun boons
- A good thing; a thing to be thankful for or to appreciate duly. Near-synonyms: gift; blessing, benefit; see also Thesaurus:gift
- That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction. I gave you life. Can you not return the boon by giving me death, my lord?
- A prayer; petition. The wofull husbandman doth lowd complaine, / To ſee his whole yeares labor loſt ſo ſoone, / For which to God he made ſo many an idle boone.
- An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.
- A blessing, typically a supernatural power, granted to an ascetic by a god or goddess. A telling story is that of Vikra, who, after practicing severe tapas for many years, called on Śiva, asking him to grant the boon that whosoever's head he would touch, that person would die instantly.
boon²
- /buːn/
Rhymes with -uːn
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.?
Proto-Italic *dwenos
Archaic Latin duenos
Old Latin duonus
Latin bonus
Old French bon
Old Northern French boonbor.
Middle English boon
English boon
From Middle English boon, bone, borrowed from Old Northern French boon, from Old French bon (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duonus, dvenos, from Proto-Indo-European *dū- (“to respect”).
adjective booner · boonest
- Gay; merry; jovial; convivial. Greedily ſhe ingorg’d without restraint, / And knew not eating Death: Satiate at length, / And hight’nd as with Wine, jocond and boon, / Thus to herſelf ſhe pleaſingly began.
- Kind; bountiful; benign. With mazie error under pendant ſhades / Ran Nectar, viſiting each plant, and fed /Flours worthy of Paradiſe which not nice Art / In Beds and curious Knots, but Nature boon / Powrd forth profuſe on Hill and Dale and Plaine, / […]
- Good; prosperous. boon voyage
boon³
- /buːn/
Rhymes with -uːn
Where it comes from
From Middle English bone (“reed, stem, husk”), akin to or alteration of Old English bune (“reed; drinking cup”).
noun
- The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
Boon⁴
proper noun
- A surname
- A township in Warrick County, Indiana, United States, named after settler Ratcliff Boon.
- A township and unincorporated community therein, in Wexford County, Michigan, United States.
