Where does “bouf” come from?

bouf (Luxembourgish) comes from Middle High German buobe, from Old High German Buobo, from Proto-West Germanic *babō, from Proto-Germanic bō-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰā- — to say.

bouf (Luxembourgish): boy, lad

Definitions

  1. boy, lad

Ancestry of “bouf”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle High Germanbuobeknave
2Old High GermanBuobo—
3Proto-West Germanic*babō—
4Proto-Germanicbō-A stem meaning "father, brother, close male...
5Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰā-to say

Words derived from “bouf”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰā- →Every word from Proto-Germanic bō- →Every word from Proto-West Germanic *babō →