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*bu-kanto-s

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McCone (Kim): The inflection of OIr. bó ‘cow’ and the etymology of buchet.
In Ériu 42 (1991), pp. 37–44.
vs.T. F. O’Rahilly, in Ériu 16 (1952), pp. 7-20. Derives buchet from *bu-kanto-s, inverted from *kanto-bu-s ‘possessing a hundred cows’. Derives bue ‘man of property’, am-bue ‘man without property’ from *bow- ‘cow’ (vs. LEIA B-112).
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