Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/buhsā

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin buxa, buxis, buxus (“thing made of boxwood; box”).

Noun edit

*buhsā f

box, casket

Inflection edit

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*buhsā
Genitive	*buhsōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*buhsā	*buhsōn
Accusative	*buhsōn	*buhsōn
Genitive	*buhsōn	*buhsōnō
Dative	*buhsōn	buhsōm, buhsum
Instrumental	*buhsōn	buhsōm, buhsum

Related terms edit

*buhs

Descendants edit

Old English: box
- Middle English: box, boxe
  - English: box (see there for further descendants)
  - Scots: box
Old Frisian: *bukse, busse
- Saterland Frisian: Bukse, Busse
- West Frisian: bus, bos
Old Saxon: *buhsa
- Middle Low German: busse
  - German Low German: Büsse, Büss
  - → Old Norse: byssa
    - Icelandic: byssa
    - Faroese: byrsa
    - Norwegian: bøsse, bøssa, børse, børsa
    - Old Swedish: byssa, bøssa
      - Swedish: bössa, byssa
      - → Finnish: pyssy
      - → Ingrian: pyssy
      - → Karelian: pyššy
    - Danish: bøsse
  - → Estonian: püss
Old Dutch: *buhsa
- Middle Dutch: busse
  - Dutch: bus
  - Limburgish: bösj
  - → English: bush
Old High German: buhsa
- Middle High German: buhse, bühse
  - Bavarian: Bichsn, Bixn, Buchsn, Buxn
  - German: Büchse (“can”); Buchse (“bushing, connector”)
  - Luxembourgish: Béchs
  - Yiddish: ביקס (biks)
- → Hungarian: puska
- → Proto-Slavic:
  - Bulgarian: пу́шка (púška)
  - Czech: puška
  - Old East Slavic: пушка (puška)
    - Russian: пу́шка (púška)
  - Polish: puszka
  - Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: пу̏шка
    
    Latin script: pȕška
    - → Albanian: pushkë
  - Slovak: puška
  - Slovene: púška
  - → Romanian: pușcă