boon

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.? Proto-Italic *dwenos Old Latin duenos Old Latin duonus Latin bonus Old French bon Old Northern French boonbor. Middle English boon English boon From Middle English boon, bone, borrowed from Old Northern French boon, from Old French bon (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duonus, dvenos, from Proto-Indo-European *dū- (“to respect”).

1. Gay; merry; jovial; convivial.

   “Greedily ſhe ingorg’d without restraint, / And knew not eating Death: Satiate at length, / And hight’nd as with Wine, jocond and boon, / Thus to herſelf ſhe pleaſingly began.”

   “I knovv the Infirmity of our Family; vve are apt to play the Boon-Companion, and throvv avvay our Money in our Cups: […]”

2. Kind; bountiful; benign.

   “With mazie error under pendant ſhades / Ran Nectar, viſiting each plant, and fed /Flours worthy of Paradiſe which not nice Art / In Beds and curious Knots, but Nature boon / Powrd forth profuſe on Hill and Dale and Plaine, / […]”

3. Good; prosperous.

   “boon voyage”

name

1. A surname
2. A township in Warrick County, Indiana, United States, named after settler Ratcliff Boon.
3. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Wexford County, Michigan, United States.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English bone (“reed, stem, husk”), akin to or alteration of Old English bune (“reed; drinking cup”).

1. The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.