The story
- Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*bulluk
- Old English · inherited frombulluc
- Middle English · inherited frombullok
- English todaybullock
From Middle English bullok, from Old English bulluc, from Proto-West Germanic *bulluk, corresponding to bull + -ock (diminutive suffix). Compare Old Dutch bullok (“bullock”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishbulluc all →
Bulkeley
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.