caboce

Old French

Alternative forms

caboche (Anglo-Norman, Picardy, 13th century onwards)

Etymology

From the pejorative prefix ca- + boce, which is disputed:

Possibly a formation from Latin caput (“head”), but the medial p would have lenited to v.
From Vulgar Latin *bottia (“bump”), a Germanic borrowing, from Frankish *boce (“knob”), from Old High German bozzan (“to beat”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautan, from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to push, strike”)[1]

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: cabbage
  - Sranan Tongo: kabisi
  - → Abenaki: kabij
  - → Yoruba: kábéèjì
- Scots: cabbitch
- Yola: gaubbach, gubbauch, gubbach

References

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*bottia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 1: A–B, page 469

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (caboche, supplement)
Etymology and history of “caboche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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