Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *būkazScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_būkaz
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nounmasculinea-stembelly, abdomenbodyUncertain. Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw-g-o-s, from a root *bʰew- (‘to swell, inflate’), however, the existence of this root is in doubt. The word has no secure cognates outside Proto-Germanic; a pre-Germanic substrate origin or an expressive formation cannot be excluded.