Bohemia

Meaning

1. A township in Ontonagon County, Michigan.
2. A hamlet in Redlynch parish, south-east Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU2019).
3. A place in the United States:
4. A community of bohemians, unconventional artists or writers.
5. An inner suburb of Hastings, East Sussex (OS grid ref TQ8010).
6. Alternative letter-case form of Bohemia.
7. An unincorporated community in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
8. A place name elsewhere:
9. The world or social milieu of such bohemians.
10. A place in England:
11. A cultural region in the west of the former Czechoslovakia and present-day Czech Republic.

Etymology / origin

Latinized translation of French Bohême, from Late Latin Boiohaemum, compound of Boio- (“the Boii”), the Celtic tribe previously inhabiting the area and Germanic *haimaz (“home”) (more at home). The endonym is from Proto-Celtic *boyos and could ultimately be from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cattle”) (compare Proto-Celtic *bāus (“cattle”), genitive *bowos), a reference to cattle owners, or from *bʰeyh₂- (“to hit”), i.e. “warrior, strong hitter” (compare Proto-Celtic *binati (“to strike, hit”)). Bohemia was abandoned by the Boii c. 60 BCE and settled by the Germanic Marcomanni shortly thereafter. Related to Bavaria.

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