pū̆ k-1, peuk-

    pū̆ k-1, peuk-

    English meaning: thick-haired, *fox

    Deutsche Übersetzung: etwa “dense behaart, buschig (buschiger Schwanz), dichtwollig”

    Material: O.Ind. púccha-, -m “tail, member, rod” (kann *pu[k]-sko- sein); after dem buschigen Schwanz benannt, seems Goth. faúhō, O.Ice. fōa, O.H.G. foha “ vixen “ (Gmc. - ōn), besides with masc. -s-: O.E. fox, O.H.G. fuhs “fox” etc.; Lith. paustìs “Tierhaar”; Russ.- Pol. puch (*peukso-, poukso-) “Flaumfedern, Daunen, feines wolliges Haar an animals” (out of it Lith. pũkas “Flaumfeder”), Russ. pušistyj “fleecy, dense, buschig”, pušnó j tová r “Pelzwerk”, Cz.-nsorb. o-puš (*puchъ), opyš “tail”, Russ. opúška, opušina “edge (of Waldes), hem, Verbrämung”.

    Note: Alb. suggests that Root pū̆ k-1, peuk- : (thick-haired, *fox) is a reduced root of older Lat. volpes “fox”, Gk. alôpêx a fox. Root u̯l̥p-, lup- : [a kind of carnivore (fox, wolf)].

    References: WP. II 82 f.