At 4:36:47 AM on Sunday, March 30, 2008, fournet.arnaud
wrote:
> From: Anders R. Joergensen
[...]
>> bukk- "male"
>> Tsigane, avestique buz < *bu-g-
>> But we can't rule out a loan from Germanic for this word,
>> can we?
> What would it be in Germanic ?
I expect that Anders is thinking of OE <buc>, ON <bukkr>,
OHG <bocch> 'he-goat; stag', all from PGmc. *bukkaz.
Watkins does suggest that this might have been borrowed from
a PCelt. *bukkos, from which he says that OFr <boc> 'buck'
was borrowed; Matasovic has *PCelt. *bukko- 'goat' (OIr
<boc>, MWe <bwch>, MBret <bouch>, OCo <boch> glossed 'caper
.l. hyrcus') and says that the Celtic forms may be loanwords
from Germanic. The source in any case is *bHug^o-, also
represented by Arm. <buc> 'lamb' and Avest. <bu:za->.
Brian