boneless

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From Middle English bonles, banles, from Old English bānlēas (“boneless”), from Proto-Germanic *bainalausaz, equivalent to bone + -less. Cognate with Scots baneless (“boneless”), Dutch beenloos (“boneless; legless”), German beinlos (“legless”), Swedish benlös (“boneless”), Icelandic beinlaus (“boneless”).

29 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: обезкостен (obezkosten) — without bones
• Catalan: desossat — without bones
• Finnish: luuton — without bones
• Finnish: ruodoton — without bones
• French: désossé — without bones
• German: schier — without bones
• Ancient Greek: ἀνόστεος (anósteos) — without bones
• Icelandic: beinlaus — without bones
• Irish: díchnámhaithe — without bones
• Irish: gan chnámha — without bones
• Italian: disossato — without bones
• Latin: exos — without bones
• Latin: exossis — without bones
• Macedonian: обескостен (obeskosten) — without bones
• Māori: iwikore — without bones
• Norwegian Bokmål: beinløs — without bones
• Norwegian Bokmål: beinlaus — without bones
• Norwegian Bokmål: benløs — without bones
• Norwegian Nynorsk: beinlaus — without bones
• Polish: bezkostny — without bones
• Portuguese: desossado — without bones
• Romanian: dezosat — without bones
• Spanish: deshuesado — without bones
• Swedish: benfri — without bones
• Tagalog: hukhok — without bones
• Turkish: kemiksiz — without bones
• Ottoman Turkish: كمیكسز (kemiksiz) — without bones
• Welsh: diasgwrn — without bones
• Welsh: heb esgyrn — without bones