buccus

Latin

From Frankish *bukk (“buck, goat”), from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz; possibly assisted by Gaulish *bukkos, from Proto-Celtic *bukkos (“goat”).

buccus m (genitive buccī); second declension^[1]^[2]

Padanian:
- Piedmontese: boc
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: bôc, boque, boche
- Old French: buc
  - Middle French: bouc
    - French: bouc; bouk, bok (dialectal)
      - Haitian Creole: bouk
  - ⇒ Old French: bocher, boucher, bouchier
    - Bourguignon: bochei
    - Middle French: boucher, bouchier
      - French: boucher
        Haitian Creole: bouche
      - Norman: bouochi (Jersey)
    - Walloon: botchî
    - → Galician: buxeo
    - → Middle English: bocher, bochier, boucher, buccher, bucher, bochere, bocheyr, boochier, boscher (Late Middle English)
      - English: butcher
        → Hindi: बूचड़ (būcaṛ)
        → Swahili: bucha
        → Urdu: بُوچَڑ (būcaṛ)
      - Scots: butcher
    - → Irish: búistéir
    - → Sicilian: vucceri, bucceri, buccieri, ucceri, vuccieri
      - → Maltese: biċċier
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Aragonese: boc, buco, boque
- Old Catalan: boch, boc
  - Catalan: boc
- Occitan: boc
Iberian:
- Old Spanish: bote
  - Spanish: bode
    - → Portuguese: bode

^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “buccus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 107
^ buccus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)