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

Etymology

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

Noun

*buhsā f

1. box, casket

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*bohsā
Genitive	*bohsōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*bohsā	*bohsōn
Accusative	*bohsōn	*bohsōn
Genitive	*bohsōn	*bohsōnō
Dative	*bohsōn	*bohsōm, *buhsum
Instrumental	*bohsōn	*bohsōm, *buhsum

Related terms

• *buhs

Descendants

• 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