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Re: Bozo / Božo - meaning?
by Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans)
4/19/2006, 3:03 PM
in reply to a message by Pavlos
Well, the clown was probably named with the American English slang word "bozo" and I doubt if his name is related to the south Slavic examples of Božo.http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bozoMy guess would be that Božo is a shortened form of south Slavic names such as Božidar and Božislav. (see BOŽIDAR) (P.S. I have no idea why BOŽIDAR and Božidar aren't creating links since the name is in the dictionary on this site.)

This message was edited 4/19/2006, 3:06 PM

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- chazda (guest)   +1
4/19/2006, 7:48 PM
Re:linksIn order to get links to show up, you just have to put the name without any special characters - usually Miranda just puts it in parentheses like this Božidar (Bozidar)- chazda the helpful
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- Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans)
4/20/2006, 10:21 AM
Thanks!t
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- Pavlos (guest)
4/19/2006, 6:52 PM
Most plausible. Thanks, Professor!
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