Learned borrowing from Latin baculum ( “ stick, staff, sceptre, cudgel ” ) .
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Learned borrowing from Latin baculum .
Uncertain , though probably loaned from a non-Indo-European substrate . The term is possibly cognate with Proto-Slavic * bokъ , Proto-Celtic * bakkos , Ancient Greek βάκτρον ( báktron ) , and Proto-West Germanic * pagil . Based on these forms, the Proto-Indo-European root * bak- has been reconstructed. The term could be construed as a derivative of Proto-Indo-European * bak-tlom , although De Vaan postulates a pre-form * bak-k(e)los . The linguist Gert Klingenschmitt has proposed an alternative reconstruction * gʷaḱ- , though the linguist Thomas Olander suggests that a form * gʷh₂ḱ- could also yield the expected forms according to this theory. Nevertheless, such an alternative reconstruction would perhaps require the Latin term to have been borrowed from an Osco-Umbrian language, though it would allow for Old Armenian կալ ( kal , “ threshing floor ” ) to be adduced as a cognate. See also beccus , Ancient Greek βακτηρία ( baktēría ) .
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