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|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">onion; purse-tassels, Muscari comosum</b> (Att., Arist.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">βολβίον</b> (Hp.), <b class="b3">βολβάριον</b> (Epict.), <b class="b3">βολβίσκος</b> (AP) <b class="b2">small onion</b>. - From <b class="b3">βολβός</b> the plant <b class="b3">βολβίνη</b> (Thphr., s. Strömberg Theophrastea 86). - On the fishnames <b class="b3">βολβίδιον</b>, <b class="b3">βολβίτιον</b>, <b class="b3">βολβιτίνη</b> see <b class="b3">βόλβιτον</b>; also <b class="b3">βολβῖτις</b>, <b class="b3">βολβιτίς</b>. See Thompson Fishes 33; Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 174 A. 1; Redard Noms grecs en <b class="b3">-της</b> 85. -<br />Origin: ONOM [onomatopoia, and other elementary formations]<br />Etymology: The form of the word is expressive, soundsymbolic, with a kind of reduplication. No direct relatives. Reminds of words for round, globular objects, like Lat. [[bulla]] [[waterbubble]], <b class="b3">βυλλά βεβυσμένα</b> H., Lith. <b class="b2">bur̃bulas</b> [[waterbubble]] etc., cf. <b class="b3">βομβυλίς</b> s. <b class="b3">βόμβος</b>; Arm. [[boɫk]] [[radish]] (Skt. <b class="b2">bálba-ja-</b> m. kind of grass, <b class="b2">Eleusine indica</b>, orig. <b class="b2">balba-born</b> is less adequate); cf. Pok. 103; W.-Hofmann s. [[bulbus]]. Cf. [[βῶλος]]. (Lat. [[bulbus]] is a LW [loanword]).

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