bucket

The story

1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*būkaz“belly, stomach”
2. Frankish · derived from*būk“belly, stomach”
3. Vulgar Latin · derived from*būcus
4. Old French · derived frombuc“abdomen; object with a cavity”
5. Anglo-Norman · derived frombuket
6. Old English · derived frombucc
7. Middle English · inherited frombuket
8. English todaybucket

From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish *būk (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk.

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