The story
- Proto-Germanic · derived from*hōkaz
- Old Saxon · derived fromhōk
- Middle Dutch · derived fromhakebus
- Middle Low German · derived fromhakebusse
- Middle French · borrowed fromharquebuse
- English todayharquebus
From Middle French harquebuse, borrowed from Middle Low German hakebusse or Middle Dutch hakebus, hagebus (modern Dutch haakbus), from hôk (“hook”) + busse (“box; firelock”), from Old Saxon hōk + *buhsa, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz + *buhsā.
Words from the same roots
Proto-Germanic*hōkaz all →
hook
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.