Where does “buńczuk” come from?
buńczuk (Polish) comes from Ukrainian бунчук, from Turkish boncuk, from Ottoman Turkish بونجق, from Proto-Turkic *bōnčuk, from Manx boyn, from Middle Irish bonn, from Celtic *bundos, from Proto-Indo-European bʰudʰmḗn — smoke; mist, haze.
buńczuk (Polish): panache
Ancestry of “buńczuk”, step by step