bheug-

To bend; with derivatives referring to bent, pliable, or curved objects.

Derivatives include bagel, buxom, and bog.

I. Variant form *bheugh- in Germanic *beug-.

1.

a. bee², from Old English bēag, a ring;

b. bagel, from Old High German boug, a ring. Both a and b from Germanic *baugaz.

2.

a. bow³; akimbo, from Old English boga, a bow, arch;

b. Germanic compound *elino-bugōn- (see el-);

c. bow¹, from a source akin to Middle Low German boog, bow of a boat;

d. bowline, bowsprit, from Middle Low German bōch, bow of a boat. a-d all from Germanic *bugōn-.

3. bow², buxom, from Old English būgan, to bend, from Germanic būgan.

4. bail³, from Middle English beil, a handle, perhaps from Old English *bēgel or from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Swedish *böghil, both from Germanic *baugil-.

5. bight, from Old English byht, a bend, angle, from Germanic *buhtiz.

II. bog, from Scottish and Irish Gaelic bog, soft, from Celtic *buggo-, “flexible.”

 

[Pokorny 3. bheug- 152.]

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