busk

v. (wk.)

Gaw pres. pl. buskkez; Cl pres. 3 sg. buskeʒ, past pl. bosked, imper. sg. busk, bosk; Pat past sg. busked; Erk past 3 sg. (reflexive) buskyd; WA buske, pres. buskis, buskes, subj. pl. buske, past sg. busked, pp. busket 

‘to get ready, array, dress, make haste (intrans.); make (trans.); go, betake oneself, drive’ (Modern English busk)

Etymology

cp. OIcel búa-sk ‘to prepare oneself, get oneself ready (to leave), set out, dress oneself’ (regarded by Bj. as distinctively OWN) < PGmc *ƀōwwan- + reflexive (acc.) *sek(e), cp. OE būan, OFris būwa, OS būan, OHG bū(w)an,‘to live, dwell’.

PGmc Ancestor

*ƀōwwan- + reflexive (acc.) *sek(e)

Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)

búask, 'to prepare oneself, get oneself ready (to leave), set out, dress oneself’  
(ONP búa (2) (vb., E))

Other Scandinavian Reflexes

Far búgva, Icel búa, Norw bu(a), Dan bo, Sw bo

OE Cognate

būan 'to stay, dwell, live (intrans.); to inhabit, occupy (trans.)'

Phonological and morphological markers

ON middle voice -<em>sk</em>

Summary category

A2*c

Attestation

From c1325, especially in texts from N and E, but widespread in alliterative verse; MnE N dialects.

Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus

Gaw 509, 1128, 1136 etc.; Cl 142, 333, 351, etc.; Pat 437 Erk 112; WA 373, 774, 811* etc.

Bibliography

MED busken (v.) , OED busk (v.1) , HTOED , HTOED , EDD busk (v.3) Dance busk, Bj. 137, 282 (DP 4), de Vries búa (3), Mag. búa (3), Seebold bōww-a-, Orel *ƀōw(w)anan, Kroonen *bōan- ~ *būan-, AEW bū(i)an