Where does “[[bukker]], [[bokker]]” come from?
[[bukker]], [[bokker]] (Old Swedish) comes from Old Norse [[bokkr]], [[bukkr]], from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz, from Proto-Indo-European bʰuǵ-, from Proto-North Caucasian bVχc̣V, from Proto-North Caucasian bVc̣V — young he-goat.
Ancestry of “[[bukker]], [[bokker]]”, step by step