bhau-

To strike. Oldest form *bheə₂u-, colored to *bhaə₂u-, contracted to *bhau-.

Derivatives include beat, buttock, halibut, button, and refute.

1. beat, from Old English bēatan, to beat, from Germanic *bautan.

2. beetle³; battledore, from Old English bȳtl, hammer, mallet, from Germanic *bautilaz, hammer.

3. baste³, probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse beysta, to beat, denominative from Germanic *baut-sti-.

4. buttock, from Old English diminutive buttuc, end, strip of land, from Germanic *būtaz.

5.

a. halibut, from Middle Dutch butte, flatfish;

b. turbot, from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Swedish but, flatfish. Both a and b from Germanic *butt-, name for a flatfish.

6. bouton, butt¹, button, buttress; abut, rebut, sackbut, from Old French bo(u)ter, to strike, push, from Germanic *buttan.

7. Variant zero-grade form *bhū- (< *bhuə-, metathesized from *bhəu-). Suffixed form *bhū-t-ā-.

a. confute, from Latin cōnfūtāre, to check, suppress, restrain (com-, intensive prefix; see kom);

b. refute, from Latin refūtāre, to drive back, rebut (re-, back; see re-).

8. Possibly reduced suffixed form *bhu-tu- (*bhəu-). footle; clafouti, from Latin futuere, to have intercourse with (a woman).

 

[Pokorny 1. bhā̆u- 112.]

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