bot

Pronunciation: /boːt/

“bot” is an Old English word. Its 4 meanings in English:

noun

help, assistance, rescue, remedy, cure, deliverance from evil
mending, repair, improvement
compensation for an injury or wrong; (peace) offering, recompense, amends, atonement, reformation, penance, repentance
improvement in (moral) condition, amendment

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *bōtu (“recompense”). Cognates Cognate with Old Frisian bōte, Old Saxon bōta, Dutch boete, Old High German buoza (German Buße), Old Norse bōt (Swedish bot), Gothic 𐌱𐍉𐍄𐌰 (bōta).

More Old English words

borian
bos
bosig
bosm
botettan
botian
botl
botleas

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