bühse

Middle High German

Alternative forms

• buhse (alternative form in Upper German)

Etymology

Inherited from Old High German buhsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈbyxs̠ə/

Noun

bühse f

1. a box
   • c. 1200, Iwein, section 3441:

     ... die bühsen mit dër salben...

     ... the boxes with the salve...

2. a rifle, a cannon

Declension

Declension of bühse (weak feminine)

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	diu	bühse	die	bühsen
genitive	einer	dër	bühsen	dër	bühsen
dative	einer	dër	bühsen	dën	bühsen
accusative	eine	die	bühsen	die	bühsen

Descendants

• Bavarian: Bichsn, Bixn, Buchsn, Buxn
• Central Franconian:
  • Hunsrik: Bichs
  • Luxembourgish: Béchs
• East Central German: Bichs
• German: Büchse (“can”)
  • → Kashubian: biksa
  • → Pennsylvania German: Bix
  • → Silesian: biksa
• German: Buchse (“bushing, connector”)
• Yiddish: ביקס (biks)
• → Hungarian: puska
• → 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

References

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich; Müller, Wilhelm; Zarncke, Friedrich (1863), “BÜHSE”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
• Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “bühse”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch‎^[1] (in German), 3rd edition