bugel

From Middle Breton buguel, from Proto-Brythonic *bʉgöl, from Proto-Celtic *boukolyos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷowkólos, from *gʷṓws (“cow”) + *kʷel- (“to revolve, turn around”).

Cognates include Cornish bugel (“shepherd”), Welsh bugail (“shepherd”), Irish buachaill (“boy”), Scottish Gaelic buachaille (“herder”), Manx bochilley (“shepherd”) and Ancient Greek βουκόλος (boukólos, “cowherd”).

bugel m

1. child

• bugel-bihan (“grandchild”, noun)
• bugel-kuñv (“great-grandchild”, noun)
• bugel-noz (“leprechaun, goblin, ghost, spirit”, noun)
• bugelek (“infantile, childish”, adjective)
• bugelel (“infantile, childish”, adjective)
• bugelez (“apprentice”, noun)
• bugeliañ (“to tend animals”, verb)
• bugeliezh (“childhood”, noun)
• bugaleaj (“childhood”, noun)
• bugulgan (“bucolic”, adjective)
• eil bugaleaj (“senility”, noun)

• bugul

bugel m

1. shepherd

Borrowed from English bugle, from Middle English [Term?], from Old French bugle, from Latin būculus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈby.ɣəl/

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• Hyphenation: bu‧gel

bugel m (plural bugels, diminutive bugeltje n)

1. bugle, flugelhorn, a brass instrument