Mate Kapovic wrote:
> Well, it is usually associated with Slavi *buka "noise", *bucati "to
> make noise, to roar" which is ultimately an onomatopoeic word.
>
> Mate
to make noise here should be related to Rom. "bucium" and Latin
"bu:cina", Greek "bukane"
none of them has here the meaning of "ox" but for this meaning let see
in Latin "bucula" young kow, "bucolicus" sherper, one will see here the
meanig related to this animal. So, the developent of "buc-" to this kind
of animal is not a young one for considering it "Slavic" but apparently
from older times.
Alex
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