bucca – Old English noun declension

Noun: bucca
Gender: m

Nominative

Singular	bucca
Plural	buccan

Genitive

Singular	buccan
Plural	buccena

Dative

Singular	buccan
Plural	buccum

Accusative

Singular	buccan
Plural	buccan

Sample Sentences

c. 994, Ælfric, On the Year
Ǣlċe mōnað hēo yrnð under ān þǣra tacna. Ān þǣra tacna ys ġehāten aries, þæt is ramm; oðer taurus, þæt is fearr; ðridda gemini, þæt synd ġetwisan; fēorða cancer, þæt is crabba; fīfta leo; syxta virgo, þæt is mǣden; seofoða libra, þæt is pund orde wǣġe; eahtoðe scorpius, þæt is þrōwend; nigoða is sagittarius, þæt is sċytta; teoða ys capricornus, þæt is buccan horn, oððe bucca; endlyfta is aquarius, þæt is wæter-ġyte, oððe þe þe wæter ġyt; twelfte is pisces, þæt synd fixas. (Each month runs under one of the signs [of the Zodiac]. The first of the signs is called aries, that is "ram"; the second is taurus, that is "bull"; the third is gemini, that is "twins"; the fourth is cancer, that is "crab"; the fifth is lion; the sixth is virgo, that is "virgin"; the seventh is libra, that is "pound" or "scales”; eighth is scorpious, that is "scorpion"; ninth is sagittarius, that is "shooter"; tenth is capricornus, that is "he-goat's horn" or "he-goat"; eleventh is aquarius, that is "pouring water" or "one that pours water"; twelfth is pisces, that is "fishes.")

Nouns inflected like bucca

sealma, cristalla, snecga, smitta, sogoþa, yrfenuma, selfbana, bedreda, worhana, uuituma, merefara, collecta, hringedstefna, wyrtwala, wyrtruma, ferðloca, græshoppa, ferþloca, forespreca, græsstapa, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *bukkō, from Proto-Germanic *bukkô (“male goat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰugo- (“buck”). Akin to Old High German boc, Old Norse bukkr, Middle Dutch boc, Avestan 𐬠𐬏𐬰𐬀 (būza, “buck, goat”), Old Armenian բուծ (buc, “lamb”), Old English bucc (“male deer”). See: Old Norse Nouns 'bukkr', Old English Nouns 'buc'.

Verbs referencing "bucca"

Old English Nouns bucc, Middle English Nouns bukke, Irish Nouns poc.