New etymologies (1)

*buli- ‘rump, anus’. 1. Alb. bythë ‘anus, ass’ with attested dialectal
form bithë from compound *buli-zd-eH2 > PAlb *bulizda: > bitha:
through syncope of syllable -ul- : Lith bulis ‘rump’, Skt buli-
‘vulva; anus’. It is to be noticed that in Balkan languages entered
Roma loan bulash ‘gay, homosexual’. 2. Alb vithe ‘rump of a large
animal: cruppers, buttocks, hunkers’ as pluralia tantum seems to be
from prefixed form *H2aw + *isg’h-eH2es > PALB avisda:es: Grk iskhion
‘hip’, iksus ‘loins, groin’: Hit iskis(a)- ‘loins’: Latin i:lia
‘groin, flanks’. 3a. ith ‘back side, back’ from *eg’hs- > PAlb *ids-;
b. ithi ‘from behind’ probably from loc sing form; c. ithtar
‘follower, supporter; literally one that goes after someone’ as agent
noun. (Mallory-Adams buli- 182, isg’his- 182.)

*bha:g’hus ‘shoulder, arm’. 1. Alb kaliboç ‘astride the shoulders,
piggyback’, synonymic with kaliqafë ‘id.’, where second element of the
compound -boç is probably derived from *bha:g’hus > Palb *ba:d(u)s
(*a: > o and -ds- > -dsh- > -ç-, see also Alb kyç ‘key, joint‘): OE
bo:g ‘shoulder, arm, foreleg’ (>NE bough), Grk pêkhus ‘elbow,
forearm’, Av bazu- ‘arm, foreleg’, Toch B pokai- ‘arm, limb’. (Pokorny
bha:gh’u-s 108.)

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