Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/buhsā

This Proto-West 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.

Borrowed from Latin buxa, buxis, buxus (“thing made of boxwood; box”).

*buhsā f

1. box, casket

• *buhs

• Old English: box
  • Middle English: box, boxe
    • English: box (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: box
• Old Frisian: *bukse, busse
  • Saterland Frisian: Bukse, Busse
  • West Frisian: bus, bos
• Old Saxon: *buhsa
  • Middle Low German: busse
    • German Low German: Büsse, Büss
    • → Old Norse: byssa
      • Icelandic: byssa
      • Faroese: byrsa
      • Norwegian: bøsse, bøssa, børse, børsa
      • Old Swedish: byssa, bøssa
        • Swedish: bössa, byssa
        • → Finnish: pyssy
        • → Ingrian: pyssy
        • → Karelian: pyššy
      • Danish: bøsse
    • → Estonian: püss
• Old Dutch: *buhsa
  • Middle Dutch: busse
    • Dutch: bus
      • Afrikaans: bus
    • Limburgish: bösj
    • → English: bush
• Old High German: buhsa
  • Middle High German: buhse, bühse
    • Bavarian: Bichsn, Bixn, Buchsn, Buxn
    • German: Büchse (“can”); Buchse (“bushing, connector”)
    • Luxembourgish: Béchs
    • Yiddish: ביקס (biks)
  • → Hungarian: puska
  • → Proto-Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: пу́шка (púška)
    • Czech: puška
    • Old East Slavic: пушка (puška)
      • Russian: пу́шка (púška)
    • Polish: puszka
    • Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: пу̏шка

      Latin script: pȕška

      • → Albanian: pushkë
    • Slovak: puška
    • Slovene: púška
    • → Romanian: pușcă