Buoso

== Italian == === Proper noun === Buoso m (rare) a male given name == Old Dutch == === Etymology === Inherited from Frankish ᛒᛟᛋᛟ (Bōso), from Proto-West Germanic *Bōsō, from Proto-Germanic *Bōsô. Further etymology not completely certain, but likely related to Proto-West Germanic *bannan (“to proclaim”), Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos, “light”) and Sanskrit भास् (bhā́s, “light”), all from the root of Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to shine, to appear”), meaning that this name might have meant 'bright' or 'glimmering'. The name also appears in other Germanic languages, including Old High German Buoso and earlier ᛒᛟᛋᛟ (Boso), Old English Bōsa and Old Norse Bósi. === Proper noun === Buoso m a male given name ==== Declension ==== Though the expected declension of a name ending on -o would be an-stem, place-names show that a-stem declension may also have been used: === Further reading === Maurits Gysseling (1982), “Noordwesteuropese persoonsnaambestanddelen”, in Naamkunde. Jaargang 14‎[1] (in Dutch), page 84