English

killbuck

From kill + buck.

A compound of kill + buck

Middle English killen

English kill

Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- ‘buck, he-goat’

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Proto-Germanic *bukkô

Proto-West Germanic *bukkō

Old English bucca ‘he-goat, a buck’

Middle English bukke ‘male goat’

English buck

Today it means

noun A butcher.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / killbuck