Boihaemum

Directly or via Ancient Greek Βουίαιμον (Bouíaimon), rendering Proto-Germanic *baiaz (“one of the Boii”) + *haimaz (“home”), designating the area abandoned by the Boii c. 60 BCE and settled by the Germanic Marcomanni shortly thereafter, now German Böhmen.[1] The tribal name, Latin Bo(i)ī, is probably Gaulish *bouios (“cattle owner”), a relative adjective from Proto-Celtic *bāus (“ox, cow”), which continues Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cattle”), or less likely *bʰeyh₂- (“to strike, hit”). Related to Bavaria.

First attesed in Velleius (19 BC – c. AD 31).

• Boiohaemum, Boihemum, Boiemum, Boehemum, Boiohemum

• Uncertain:
  • (Classical) IPA^(key): /bo.iˈhae̯.mum/, [bo.iˈhäe̯.mʊ̃ˑ]
  • (Classical) IPA^(key): /bojˈjae̯.mum/, [bɔjˈjäe̯.mʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /boˈje.mum/, [bɔˈjɛː.mum]

Boihaemum n sg (genitive Boihaemī); second declension

1. (geography) roughly the present Bohemia (a region of the Czech Republic)

Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

• Bo(h)ēmī, Boihaemī
• Bo(h)ēmia, Boihaemia

• Czechī, Cechī
• Czechia, Cechia
• Moravī
• Moravia

• “Boihaemum” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

• Boii in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Boihaemum in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Boihēmum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette