{"id":17033,"date":"2018-11-08T19:19:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T18:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=17033"},"modified":"2018-11-08T19:19:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T18:19:08","slug":"bulging-budgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=17033","title":{"rendered":"Bulging Budgets!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do the words <strong>bulge<\/strong>, <strong>budge<\/strong> and <strong>budget<\/strong> have in common?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is, they all come from the same root. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Bulge<\/strong> comes from the Old Northern French <em>boulge<\/em> (leather bag), from the Late Latin <em>bulga<\/em> (leather sack), from the Gaulish <em>*bulga \/ *bulgos<\/em>, from the Proto-Celtic <em>*bolgos<\/em> (sack, bag, stomach) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/bulge#English\">source<\/a>], from the Proto-Indo-European *<em>b\u02b0el\u01f5\u02b0-<\/em> (to swell) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic\/bolgos\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Budge<\/strong>, in the sense of &#8220;a kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits&#8221;, comes from the Middle English <em>bouge<\/em> (to swell out, to bilge) from the Late Latin <em>bulga<\/em> (leather sack) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/budge#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Budget<\/strong> comes from the Middle English <em>bogett \/ bouget \/ bowgette <\/em> (leather pouch), from the Old French <em>bougette<\/em> (purse for carrying coins), the diminutive of <em>bouge<\/em> (leather bag, wallet), from the  Late Latin <em>bulga<\/em> (leather sack) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/budget#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The Proto-Celtic word <em>*bolgos<\/em> is also the root of <em>bolg<\/em>, which means belly, stomach, abdomen, buldge or hold in Irish; belly, stomach, abdomen, corporation, bilge or bowl in Manx; and blister, bilge, bulb or womb in Scottish Gaelic [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/bolg#Old_Irish\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>In the Brythonic languages <em>*bolgos<\/em> became <em>bol<\/em> (belly, paunch, abdomen, stomach, bowels; tripe; appetite, desire, gluttony, liking) in Welsh [<a href=\"http:\/\/geiriadur.ac.uk\/gpc\/gpc.html\">source<\/a>], <em>bolgh<\/em> (breach, gap, opening) in Cornish [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornishdictionary.org.uk\/cornish\/bolgh\">source<\/a>], and <em>bolc&#8217;h<\/em> in Breton [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic\/bolgos\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Budge, in the sense of to move, comes from a different root: from the Middle French <em>bougier<\/em>, from Old French <em>bougier<\/em>, from the Vulgar Latin <em>*bullic\u0101re<\/em> (to bubble; seethe; move; stir), from the Latin <em>bull\u012bre<\/em> (to boil; seethe; roil) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/budge#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do the words bulge, budge and budget have in common? The answer is, they all come from the same root. 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