Bull

Morpheme

Bull

Type

free base

Denotation

ball, bubble, boil, swelling, sealed item

Etymology

Middle English bowle, boule; Old French boule; Latin bulla

Evidence

antibullet, bull, bulla, bullae, bullectomy, bullet, bulletfest, bulletin, bulletined, bulletining, bulletinize, bulletins, bulletize, bulletless, bulletlike, bulletmaker, bulletmaking, bulletproof, bullets, bulletwood, bullety, bullion, bullous, bulls, ebullient, ebulliently, ebullition, ebullitive, hyperbullet, nanobullet, subbullet, ultrabullet

Notes

bull “papal edict,” bulla, and bill are doublets

See Also

Bill

Homographs

Bull, Bull