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disembogue
Oct. 22nd, 2012 07:23 amdisembogue (dis-em-BOHG) - v.i., to flow out as at the mouth of a stream, to debouch; to come out into the open sea from a river. v.t., to discharge, to pour out.
So used of the waters themselves and for vessels on them. Leaving the mouth of a channel or vessel is the key image in any case: borrowed around 1590 in earlier forms disemboque or disemboke from Spanish desembocar, from des-, out of (from Latin dis-) + embocar, to enter by the mouth, from en-, into (from Latin in-) + boca, mouth (from Latin bucca, cheek) + verbalizing suffix. How we went from a final -k to -g sound, and a spelling that makes it look like an Italian derivative, is a mystery.
---L.
So used of the waters themselves and for vessels on them. Leaving the mouth of a channel or vessel is the key image in any case: borrowed around 1590 in earlier forms disemboque or disemboke from Spanish desembocar, from des-, out of (from Latin dis-) + embocar, to enter by the mouth, from en-, into (from Latin in-) + boca, mouth (from Latin bucca, cheek) + verbalizing suffix. How we went from a final -k to -g sound, and a spelling that makes it look like an Italian derivative, is a mystery.
---L.
