Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/bugô

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰugʰ- (“bow; arch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ- (“to bend; arch”). Synchronically analyzed as an n-stem nominal formation from *beuganą (“to bend”).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbu.ɣɔːː/

Noun

*bugô m^[1]

bow (weapon)

Inflection

Declension of *bugô (masculine an-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*bugô	*buganiz
vocative	*bugô	*buganiz
accusative	*buganų	*buganunz
genitive	*buginiz	*buganǫ̂
dative	*bugini	*bugammaz
instrumental	*buginē	*bugammiz

Derived terms

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *bogō
- Old English: boga
  - Middle English: bowe
    - Scots: bow
    - English: bow
- Old Frisian: boga
  - Saterland Frisian: Booge
  - West Frisian: boge
- Old Saxon: bogo
  - Middle Low German: bōge
    - German Low German: Boog
- Old Dutch: bogo
  - Middle Dutch: bōge
    - Dutch: boog
      - Afrikaans: boog
- Old High German: bogo
  - Middle High German: boge
    - German: Bogen
    - Hunsrik: Bohe
    - Luxembourgish: Bou
    - Rhine Franconian: Boche, Bouche, Boge, Boo, Booe
      Frankfurterisch: [b̥oːɣ̥ə]
    - Yiddish: בויגן (boygn)
Old Norse: bogi, bugi
- Icelandic: bogi
- Faroese: bogi
- Norwegian:
  - Norwegian Nynorsk: bue, boge
- Jamtish: buga
- Elfdalian: bugi
- Old Swedish: bughi, boghi
  - Swedish: båge, båga(archaic), boge, boga(dialectal), bôg
- Old Danish: boghæ
  - Scanian: buğe
  - Danish: bue
- Gutnish: buge
- → Old Irish: boga
  - Irish: bogha
  - Scottish Gaelic: bogha
Crimean Gothic: boga

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*bugan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 82

[EDPG-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*bugan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 82

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