Old English · noun

puca

Normalised pūca

Part of speech: noun, masculine
Declension: weak
IPA: /ˈpuː.kɑ/
Syllables: ˈpuː · kɑ (2 syllables)
Modern English: goblin bucca puck pug mischievous

Meaning

goblin
a mischievous spirit

Declension

Declension of puca
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pūca	pūcan
Accusative	pūcan	pūcan
Genitive	pūcan	pūcena
Dative	pūcan	pūcum

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *pūkō, from Proto-Germanic *pūkô (“a goblin, spook”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pāug(')- (“brilliance, spectre”) or from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to swell, blow”). Cognate with Old Norse púki (dialectal Swedish puke (“devil”)). Compare also Middle Low German spôk, spûk (“apparition, ghost”), Middle Dutch spooc (“apparition, ghost”) (Dutch spook), Middle High German gespük (“a haunting”) (German Spuk).

Descendants

bucca, puck, pug

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