From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 56289
Date: 2008-03-30
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From: Brian M. Scott
> 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
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My suggestion is to reinterpret *bHug^o
as being *bhu?-k-
which regularly gives :
- Eastern forms like *bu(:)z-
NB : Why is Avest u: long ?
- Celtic as being *bu?-k > *bukk-
- And Germanic is possible Klugenized
from *bhu?k-n- (or Celtic LW)
Arnaud
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