The story
- Old English · inherited frombuc“buck; deer”
- Middle English · inherited frombouk“belly”
- Afrikaans · derived frombok“buck; goat”
- English todaybuckwagon
From Afrikaans bok (“buck; goat”) and English wagon. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests a possible derivation from Middle English bouk (“belly”) or Old English buc (“buck; deer”).
Words from the same roots
Afrikaansbok all →
bok
Middle Englishbouk all →
bulkboukeelbuck
Old Englishbuc all →
boukeelbuck
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.