BoxRec

Hope I'm not making myself look silly here but does anyone know when and where the word 'Boxing' came from?

Apparently it might have come from the Dutch word "boken", meaning to shunt or push into position, in the fourteenth century.

On the other hand, the word "box", meaning a four sided container, comes from the Latin "buxus" which in turn comes from the Greek "puxos". Maybe if early fighters fought in a squared off area (maybe with sides?) then I can imagine them being called "boxers" because they fought in a box.

I'm sorry to say but I've never heard of the word "boken"

I hardly finished any education but i've never heard of the word "boken" either, my knowledge of 14th-century dutch might be somewhat....rusty

"Beuken" maybe, but that's a bit far from boxing

Beuken makes sense

Here's the reference for "boken".

Eh.......

joneva wrote:Here's the reference for "boken".

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click on "the reference"

My knowledge of dutch might not be what I thought it was

Ik book
Jij bookt
Hij bookt
Wij boken
Jullie boken
Zij boken
Ik heb gebookt

Ik heb haar gebookt

Just googled on "boken" it seems to be a word in Swedisch.

Boken is not in the fat guy from the valleys