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Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/bukkos
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Proto-Celtic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- (“goat, buck, ram”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *bukkaz (“buck”), Old Armenian բուծ (buc, “lamb”), Persian بز (boz, “goat”), Avestan 𐬠𐬏𐬰𐬀 (būza, “ram”), Sanskrit बुख (bukha, “male goat”).
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Noun
*bukkos m[1]
- goat
- Synonym: *gabros
Declension
| Masculine o-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *bukkos | *bukkou | *bukkoi |
| vocative | *bukke | *bukkou | *bukkūs |
| accusative | *bukkom | *bukkou | *bukkoms |
| genitive | *bukkī | *bukkous | *bukkom |
| dative | *bukkūi | *bukkobom | *bukkobos |
| locative | *bukkei | *? | *? |
| instrumental | *bukkū | *bukkobim | *bukkūis |
Descendants
- Proto-Brythonic: *bux
- Middle Breton: bouch
- Breton: bouc'h
- Old Cornish: boch
- Middle Welsh: bwch
- Welsh: bwch
- Middle Breton: bouch
- Old Irish: boc, bocc
- Irish: boc
- Scottish Gaelic: boc
- Gaulish: *bukkos (possibly attested in personal name Buccos)
- → Medieval Latin: buccus (confluence with Frankish *bukk (“goat”)) (see there for further descendants)
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 83