bùirich

bùir, bùirich

roar, bellow (as a bull), Irish búireadh, roaring; Early Irish búraim; *bû-ro-, Indo-European root $$gevo, $$gû, cry; Greek $$Gboáw, shout; Lithuanian gauju, howl; Sanskrit gu, cry. Strachan gives as Gaelic stem bucro-, root buq as in Latin buccina, horn, Greek $$Gbúktcs, howling, Sanskrit bukka$$-ras, lion's roar, Norwg. bura, to bellow, Shet. boorik, cow.