tgpedersen wrote:

> >
> > Illich-Svitych has in his reconstruction of Nostratic
> > Proto-Nostratic **/bok/a/ "to run away"
> > Proto-Indo-European *bheug/bhegw- id.
> > Proto-Uralic *pok-tV- "to run"
> > Proto-Altaic *p[']Vk- "run"
> >
> > It occurred to me that the two senses of the root might be
> > reconciled, namely as "acknowledge defeat" (> "bow down",
> > "flee"),
> > cf Danish 'bukke' "bend", 'bukke under' "succumb, perish".
>
> And also that English 'to buck' is also a nice middle ground
> between "bend, flex" and "flee". Perhaps the original sense should
> be "struggling to get free"?

KBal has buk (to hide). It might be related to "run, flee to safety".

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