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Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	g^wou-
DEFINITION:	Ox, bull, cow. Nominative singular form g^wu-s. Derivatives include cow¹, beef, bugle¹,* and butter. 1. cow¹, kine; cowslip, from Old English c, c, ce, cow, from Germanic kuz (> kz). 2a. beef, bovine, bugle¹, from Latin bs (stem bov-), ox, bull, cow; b. buccinator, from Latin bcina, horn, trumpet, from bou-kan-, “bellower” (-kan-, singer; see kan-). 3a. Boötes, boustrophedon, bucolic, bugloss, bulimia, bumelia, buprestid, butter, butyric, from Greek bous, ox, bull, cow; b. buffalo, from Greek boubalos, buffalo, perhaps from bous. 4. gayal; guar, Gurkha, nilgai, from Sanskrit gau, go-, cow. 5. Suffixed form g^wou-no-. gunny, from Pali goa-,* ox. 6. Suffixed form g^wu-ro-. gaur, from Sanskrit gaura,* wild ox. 7. Zero-grade suffixed form g^ww--. hecatomb, from Greek hekatomb,* “sacrifice of a hundred oxen” (hekaton, hundred; see dek). (Pokorny gou- 482.)


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