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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Bosheit

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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, B (1891)
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis
Bosheit
Friedrich Kluge2506402An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, B — Bosheit1891John Francis Davis

Bosheit, ‘malice,’ from MidHG. and OHG. bôsheit, without mutation, because i, the cause of the mutation, was soon syncopated. Empören is not cognate.