gʷou-

gʷou-
Ox, bull, cow. Nominative singular form *gʷōu-s.
Derivatives include cow1, beef, bugle1, and butter.
1. cow1, kine; cowslip, from Old English , , cȳe, cow, from Germanic *kōuz (> *kūz).
2.
a. beef, bovine, bugle1, from Latin bōs (stem bov-), ox, bull, cow;
b. buccinator, from Latin būcina, horn, trumpet, from *bou-kanā-, “bellower” (*-kanā-, singer; see kan-).
3.
a. 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 gauḥ, go-, cow.
5. Suffixed form *gʷou-no-. gunny, from Pali goṇa-, ox.
6. Suffixed form *gʷōu-ro-. gaur, from Sanskrit gauraḥ, wild ox.
7. Zero-grade suffixed form *gʷw-ā-. hecatomb, from Greek hekatombē, “sacrifice of a hundred oxen” (hekaton, hundred; see dekm̥).
 
[Pokorny gᵘ̯ou- 482.]

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Universalium. 2010.

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