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-bula, -bla-, -ula, -la Instrumental suffix. Fossilized in Spanish. From Latin -bula 'id.' From Proto-Italic *-þlo- 'id.' From Proto-Indo-European *-d^hlo- 'id.' Indo-European Romance Asturian -la-, Portuguese -la-, Galician -la-, Catalan -ula-, French -bl(e)-, Italian -ba-, Romanian -bulă* (learned borrowing)* Balto-Slavic Lithuanian -mi, Old Church Slavonic -mĭ Hellenic Mycenaean -pi Armenian Armenian -b Indo-Iranian Sanskrit (inst. pl.) -dhís Present in words like fábula, but less obviously in words like the -bl- in hablar. de Vaan, M. Etymological Dictionary of Latin and Other Italic Languages. BRILL. 2014. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
bus m. (Noun) "bus" Borrowed from French bus 'id.,' a clipping of earlier omnibus "for all." The name omnibus was applied by Jacques Lafitt in 1820 as part of a larger phrase that did not survive: voiture omnibus "coach for all" (Walsh 1913). Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/.
buscar (Verb) "to search for" 12th cent. Unknown origin, perhaps from a hypothetical Vulgar Latin verb *boscare "to search," "to search for kindling" derived from *boscus "woods" (see bosque). Alternatively, Čevelová & Blažek (2009) believe the word was borrowed from Gothic *būska "log of wood." Indo-European Romance Asturian buscar "to search," (Palacios del Sil) "to find," Aragonese buscar, Leonese buscare, Portuguese buscar, Galician busca, Italian buscare "to acquire." Germanic Old High German busc, bosc "bush" Čevelová, D. & V. Blažek. "Gothic Loans in Romance Languages". Linguistica Brunensia. Vol. 57, Is. 1-2. 2009. Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman. Online. Ed. by É. Buchi & W. Schweickard. 2018. http://www.atilf.fr/DERom. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.