"bag, handbag" in seven languages
Meaningbag, handbag
Spanish
/ˈbolso/
masc.inherited
Bolsa is a carrier bag (and the stock exchange).
French
/sak/
masc.other source · Latin SACCUM 'sack' (from Greek, ultimately Semitic)
Un sac à main is a handbag.
Italian
/ˈborsa/
fem.inherited
Also the stock exchange: la Borsa.
Portuguese
/ˈbowsɐ/
fem.inherited
Romanian
/ˈdʒe̯antə/
fem.other source · Turkish çanta
plural: genți
Catalan
/ˈbosə/
fem.inherited
English
/bæɡ/
other source · Old Norse baggi
The Latin ancestor
BURSAM‘purse (from Greek býrsa 'hide')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Spanish and Italian carry the Latin purse, which also named the stock exchange (bolsa, borsa, bourse). French carries a sack — a word that travelled from Hebrew and Phoenician through Greek and Latin.
English relatives: purse, bourse, reimburse; sack (SACCUS)
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In a sentence
- esMe he dejado el bolso en el tren.
- frJ'ai oublié mon sac dans le train.
- itHo lasciato la borsa sul treno.
- ptEsqueci a bolsa no trem.
- roMi-am uitat geanta în tren.
- caM'he deixat la bossa al tren.
- enI left my bag on the train.