Re: Foug- "buy"

> >
> > So is Venetic Boug/Foug-ont- etc "merchant"?
>
> I doubt it. Foug-ont- and related forms are much too widespread in
> Venetic onomastics to be derived from a relatively recent
> occupational designation.

Relatively recent? What do you mean?

> More likely Foug-ont- is a participial form meaning 'Joyous' or
> 'Bringing Joy' or whatever, more or less along the lines of Slavic
> Radovan.

Which verb would that be a participle of?

> Venetic F- and B- do not alternate.

Pellegrini/Prodoscimi apparently disagree.

> I regard Bukka as a masculine
> hypocoristic (since Ven. fem. hyp.'s regularly have -o) derived
> from Illyrian substrate, meaning 'Cheeky'. I have argued before
> that the river-name Plavis came from Ill., since it has /a/ from
> */o/ whereas Ven. itself preserves /o/. I do not believe that PIE
> *bheu- 'to swell' etc. had a by-form *beu-,

Neither do I. Why do you say that?

> and assignment to Illyro-Japygian substrate explains both Bukka and
> Latin <bucca> (as well as Bucco, a hyp. cited by Varro) without
> recourse to PIE by-forms.

Pellegrini/Prodoscimi (check the quote) assign the boug-/bug- forms to
'Illyrian', according to them Untermann sees the Bukka etc forms as
hypochoristic forms of Buktor.


Torsten