Where does “bucketful” come from?
Bucketful comes from English bucket combined with the Middle English suffix -ful, with bucket deriving from Anglo-Norman buket, ultimately from Proto-Germanic bukkaz and Proto-Indo-European roots.
bucketful (English): the quantity contained in a bucket; a large...
Definitions
- the quantity contained in a bucket; a large...
Ancestry of “bucketful”, step by step
bucketful traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English bucket
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | bucket | A container made of rigid material, often with a... |
| 2 | Middle English | boket | bucket |
| 3 | Anglo-Norman | buket | tub, pail; bucket |
| 4 | Old French | buc | abdomen; object with a cavity; trunk, torso;... |
| 5 | Latin | buccus | he-goat |
| 6 | Frankish | bukk | male goat; buck, goat; buck, male goat |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | *bukkaz | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰuǵ- | buck, he-goat |
| 9 | Proto-North Caucasian | bVχc̣V | — |
| 10 | Proto-North Caucasian | bVc̣V | young he-goat |
via English ful
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ful | — |