caboce

== Old French == === Alternative forms === caboche (Anglo-Norman, Picard, 13th century onwards) === Etymology === From the apparently pejorative prefix ca- +‎ boce (“swelling, lump”, see there for more), but this is disputed. Alternatively a formation from Latin caput (“head”), but the medial p would have regularly lenited to v; this might then require borrowing from another Romance language or lost dialect. Possibly a merger or conflation of the two words. === Noun === caboce oblique singular, f (oblique plural caboces, nominative singular caboce, nominative plural caboces) (anatomy) head ==== Descendants ==== French: caboche → Middle English: caboche, cabache, caboch, cabage, caboge (via caboche)English: cabbageSranan Tongo: kabisi→ Abenaki: kabij→ Samoan: kapisi→ Swahili: kabichi→ Yoruba: kábéèjìScots: cabbitchYola: gaubbach, gubbach, gubbauch === References === Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “caboche”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC. Etymology and history of “caboche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012