The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*bew-
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*puhô“bag”
- Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*pokō
- Old English · inherited frompohha
- Middle English · inherited frompogh
- English todaypough
From Middle English pogh, powhe, from Old English pohha, a variant of pocca (“poke, bag, pouch”), from Proto-West Germanic *pokō, from Proto-Germanic *puhô (“bag”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bʰew- (“to blow, swell”).
Words from the same roots
Proto-Germanic*puhô all →
pocketemboss
Proto-Indo-European*bew- all →
pocketpickpollposepoutembosspock
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.