Indo-European Lexicon
PIE Etymon and IE Reflexes
Below we display: a Proto-Indo-European (PIE) etymon adapted from Pokorny, with our own English gloss; our Semantic Field assignment(s) for the etymon, linked to information about the field(s); an optional Comment; and Reflexes (derived words) in various Indo-European languages, organized by family/group in west-to-east order where Germanic is split into West/North/East families and English, our language of primary emphasis, is artificially separated from West Germanic. IE Reflexes appear most often as single words with any optional letter(s) enclosed in parentheses; but alternative full spellings are separated by '/' and "principal parts" appear in a standard order (e.g. masculine, feminine, and neuter forms) separated by commas.
Reflexes are annotated with: Part-of-Speech and/or other Grammatical feature(s); a short Gloss which, especially for modern English reflexes, may be confined to the oldest sense; and some Source citation(s) with 'LRC' always understood as editor. Keys to PoS/Gram feature abbreviations and Source codes appear below the reflexes; at the end are links to the previous/next etyma [in Pokorny's alphabetic order] that have reflexes.
All reflex pages are currently under active construction; as time goes on, corrections may be made and/or more etyma & reflexes may be added.
Pokorny Etymon: bhū̆g̑o-s, familiar form bhukko-s 'buck, goat'
Semantic Field(s): Goat
Indo-European Reflexes:
| Family/Language | Reflex(es) | PoS/Gram. | Gloss | Source(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Celtic | ||||
| Old Irish: | bocc | n | buck | RPN |
| Middle Irish: | bocc | n.masc | he-goat | IED/W7 |
| Breton: | bouc'h | n | buck | RPN |
| Cornish: | boch | n | buck | RPN |
| Welsh: | bwch | n | buck | RPN |
| English | ||||
| Old English: | bucc | n | buck, male dear | RPN |
| bucca | n.masc | buck, he-goat | RPN | |
| Middle English: | bocher | n | butcher | W7 |
| buck | n | buck | W7 | |
| English: | blesbok | n | S African highveld antelope with facial blaze | AHD/W7 |
| bontebok | n | coastal S African antelope | AHD | |
| Brandybuck | prop.n | hobbit clan in Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings | LRC | |
| buck | n | male animal (esp. deer) | AHD/W7 | |
| Buckland | prop.n | Shire locale in Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings | LRC | |
| butcher | n | one who slaughters animals/dresses their flesh | AHD/W7 | |
| gemsbok | n | large S African oryx | AHD/W7 | |
| Oldbuck | prop.n | hobbit surname in Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings | LRC | |
| springbok | n | small S African brown/white leaping gazelle | AHD | |
| steenbok | n | small antelope of SE Africa | AHD | |
| West Germanic | ||||
| Frisian: | bok | n | buck | ASD |
| Middle Dutch: | boc | n | buck | AHD |
| Dutch: | bok | n.masc | buck | ASD |
| Afrikaans: | blesbok | n | blesbok, lit. blaze buck | W7 |
| bok | n | buck | W7 | |
| bontebok | n | bontebok | AHD | |
| gemsbok | n | gemsbok, lit. chamois buck | AHD/W7 | |
| springbok | n | springbok | AHD | |
| steenbok | n | steenbok | AHD | |
| Old Saxon: | buc | n.masc | buck | ASD |
| Old High German: | boc(h) | n.masc | buck, he-goat | ASD/W7 |
| Middle High German: | boc | n.masc | buck, he-goat | ASD/RPN |
| German: | Bock | n.masc | buck, he-goat | ASD |
| Gemsbock | n | gemsbok, lit. chamois buck | W7 | |
| North Germanic | ||||
| Old Norse: | bokki | n.masc | buck; fellow | LRC |
| Old Icelandic: | bukkr, bokkr | n | buck, he-goat | RPN |
| Icelandic: | bokki | n.masc | buck | ASD |
| Danish: | buk | n | buck | ASD |
| Swedish: | bock | n.masc | buck | ASD |
| Italic | ||||
| Latin: | bucca | n | buck, he-goat | RPN |
| Old French: | bouchier | n.masc | butcher | W7 |
| Armenian | ||||
| Armenian: | buc | n | lamb | RPN |
| Iranian | ||||
| Farsi: | buz | n | goat | RPN |
| Avestan: | būza- | n | buck | RPN |
Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:
| Abbrev. | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| masc | = | masculine (gender) |
| n | = | noun |
| prop | = | proper |
Key to information Source codes (always with 'LRC' as editor):
| Code | Citation | |
|---|---|---|
| AHD | = | Calvert Watkins: The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, 2nd ed. (2000) |
| ASD | = | Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller: An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1898) |
| IED | = | Patrick S. Dinneen: An Irish-English Dictionary (1927) |
| LRC | = | Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| RPN | = | Allan R. Bomhard: Reconstructing Proto-Nostratic (2002) |
| W7 | = | Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963) |