bühse

• buhse (alternative form in Upper German)

Inherited from Old High German buhsa, from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā, borrowed from Late Latin buxis, borrowed from Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís), from πῠ́ξος (pŭ́xos) + -ις (-is).

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈbyxs̠ə/

bühse f

1. a box
   • c. 1200, Iwein, section 3441:

     ... die bühsen mit dër salben...

     ... the boxes with the salve...

2. a rifle, a cannon

• Bavarian: Bichsn, Bixn, Buchsn, Buxn
• Central Franconian:
  • Hunsrik: Bichs
  • Luxembourgish: Béchs
• East Central German: Bichs
• German: Büchse (“can”)
  • → Kashubian: biksa
  • → Pennsylvania German: Bix
  • → Silesian: biksa
• German: Buchse (“bushing, connector”)
• Yiddish: ביקס (biks)
• → Hungarian: puska
• → Proto-Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: пу́шка (púška)
  • Czech: puška
  • Old East Slavic: пушка (puška)
    • Russian: пу́шка (púška)
  • Polish: puszka
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic script: пу̏шка
    • Latin script: pȕška
    • → Albanian: pushkë
  • Slovak: puška
  • Slovene: púška
  • → Romanian: pușcă

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich; Müller, Wilhelm; Zarncke, Friedrich (1863), “BÜHSE”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
• "bühse" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)