bush

bush
\ \ [13] Bush comes ultimately from a prehistoric Germanic *busk-, which also produced German buschbush’. There is no actual record of the word in Old English, but it probably existed as *bysc. The Germanic base was also borrowed into the Romance languages, where in French it eventually produced boiswood’. A diminutive form of this gave English bouquet [18], while a variant bosc may have been at least partly responsible for the now archaic English boskywooded’ [16]. A derived Vulgar Latin verb *imboscāre gave English ambush.
\ \ Cf.AMBUSH, BOUQUET, OBOE

Word origins - 2ed. . 2005.

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