boetseren

== Dutch == === Etymology === From earlier bootsen, from Middle French bocer, bosser, from Picard Old French bocer (“to form, make a work of art in relief”), from boce (“protrusion, outgrowth, lump”), from Latin *bottia, from Frankish *bottja, from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to thrust, knock, bump”). Compare Middle Dutch bootse (“bump, swelling”), Italian bozza (“a draft or proof (of a document)”), Italian sbozzo (“a sketch)”), and Portuguese esboço (“a sketch”). Related to Dutch boots (“image, figure, sculpture, model, sketch”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /butˈseːrə(n)/ Hyphenation: boet‧se‧ren Rhymes: -eːrən === Verb === boetseren (transitive) to model (usually with clay) ==== Conjugation ====