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BunnyEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
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Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗BunnyEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From bunny, after the group’s rabbit motif.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bunnyEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Etymology tree Scottish Gaelic bunder.? Scots bunbor.? English bun Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English bunny From bun (“rabbit”) + -y (diminutive suffix). Probably from Scottish Gaelic bun (“bottom, butt, stump, stub”), from Old Irish bun (“the thick end of anything, base, butt, foot”), from Proto-Celtic *bonus, though its origin is uncertain. Compare also English bum. Together with rabbit, bunny has largely displaced its former rhyme cony (see cony for more).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bunnyEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English bony, boni (“swelling, tumor”), from Old French bugne, buigne (“swelling, lump”), from Old Frankish *bungjo (“swelling, bump”), from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô (“lump, clump, heap, crowd”). More at bunion, bunch.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bunnyEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
From Middle English bune (“hollow stalk or stem, drinking straw”), from Old English bune (“cup, beaker, drinking vessel; reed, cane”), of unknown origin. Related to English bun, boon (“the stalk of flax or hemp less the fibre”), Scots bune, boon, been, see bun, boon. Compare also bunweed.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bunnyEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
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Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bunnyEnglish (en) · Etymology 5Source text
Etymology tree Scottish Gaelic bunder.? Scots bunbor.? English bun Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English bunny From bun (“small bread roll”) + -y.
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