Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe belly. · The trunk or torso of the body, hence the body itself. · The carcass of a slaughtered animal.
From Middle English bouk, from Old English būc (“belly, stomach, pitcher”), from Proto-West Germanic *būk, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, body”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (“to blow, swell”). Doublet of bucket. Cognate with Scots bouk, bowk, buik (“body, carcass”), Dutch buik (“belly”), German Bauch (“belly”), Swedish buk (“belly, abdomen”), Norwegian Bokmål buk (“belly”), Icelandic búkur (“torso”). For the phonetic development, compare puck, suck.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionboukenm
- Inherited-form mentionbūcang · belly, stomach, pitcher
- Inherited-form mention*būkgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*būkazgem-pro · belly, body
- Derivation mention*bʰōw-ine-pro · to blow, swell
- Doublet mentionbucketen
- Cognate mentionbouksco
- Cognate mentionbuiknl
- Cognate mentionBauchde
- Cognate mentionbuksv
- Cognate mentionbuknb
- Cognate mentionbúkuris
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