Carol's questions for New Steve Was: Tempest in a teapot/cup/kettle

[Carol]

KEN ADAMS wrote:
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> The term Buck derives from the Afrikaans, post Dutch, word Bok. It
is commonly used in Africa today to refer to many ( especially male)
 Antelope whch although Ungulates are in a taxonomically different
group to deer. It may be that it is used in the United states today 
because of the Dutch ancestry and/or because of the presnce in the
United States of a slightly displaced (zoologically) deer called the
antelope.

Carol responds:

More likely, the Afrikaans word derives from similar Germanic roots.
We've already shown that it dates to the twelfth century, ca. 1185,
according to Cabal's source.

Carol, noting that Dutch and English are closely related languages,
both derived from branches of Old Saxon