bouc
French
Etymology
From Middle French bouc (“male goat”), from Old French buc (“male goat”), from Latin buccus, perhaps from the confluence of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *bukk (“male goat”)[1] (compare Old Dutch buck (“male goat”)), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *bukkaz, *bukkô (“male goat”), and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Gaulish *bukkos (“male goat”)[2] (compare Middle Breton bouch (“goat”), Old Cornish boch (“goat”), Old Irish boc (“buck”)), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Celtic *bukkos (“goat”), both from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- (“goat, buck, ram”). More at buck.
Pronunciation
Noun
bouc m (plural boucs, feminine chèvre)
- buck (male goat)
- 1845, Hans Christian Andersen, La Bergère et le Ramoneur:
- Avez-vous jamais vu une de ces armoires antiques, toutes noires de vieillesse, à enroulements et à feuillage ? C’était précisément une de ces armoires qui se trouvait dans la chambre : elle venait de la trisaïeule, et de haut en bas elle était ornée de roses et de tulipes sculptées. Mais ce qu’il y avait de plus bizarre, c’étaient les enroulements, d’où sortaient de petites têtes de cerf avec leurs grandes cornes. Au milieu de l’armoire on voyait sculpté un homme d’une singulière apparence : il ricanait toujours, car on ne pouvait pas dire qu’il riait. Il avait des jambes de bouc, de petites cornes à la tête et une longue barbe. Les enfants l’appelaient le Grand-général-commandant-en-chef-Jambe-de-Bouc, nom qui peut paraître long et difficile, mais titre dont peu de personnes ont été honorées jusqu’à présent.
- 1845, Hans Christian Andersen, La Bergère et le Ramoneur:
- goatee
Synonyms
- (goatee): barbiche f
Derived terms
References
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- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 83
Further reading
- “bouc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle Dutch
Noun
bouc
- Alternative spelling of boec
Middle French
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French buc, boc; see above.
Noun
bouc m (plural boucs)
- male goat
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