| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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Appendix I
Indo-European Roots |
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| ENTRY: | bheug- |
| DEFINITION: | To bend; with derivatives referring to bent, pliable, or curved objects.
Derivatives include bagel, buxom, and bog.
I. Variant form *bheugh- in Germanic *beug-. 1a. bee2, from Old English b ag, a ring; b. bagel, from Old High German boug, a ring. Both a and b from Germanic *baugaz. 2a. bow3; akimbo, from Old English boga, a bow, arch; b. Germanic compound *elino-bug n- (see el-); c. bow1, from a source akin to Middle Low German boog, bow of a boat; d. bowline, bowsprit, from Middle Low German bch, bow of a boat. a–d all from Germanic *bugn-. 3. bow2, buxom, from Old English b gan, to bend, from Germanic bgan. 4. bail3, from Middle English beil, a handle, perhaps from Old English *bgel or from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Swedish *böghil, both from Germanic *baugil-. 5. bight, from Old English byht, a bend, angle, from Germanic *buhtiz.
II. bog, from Scottish and Irish Gaelic bog, soft, from Celtic *buggo-, “flexible.” (Pokorny 3. bheug- 152.) |
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