Bouche
/buːʃ/noun
A French word meaning “mouth.”
Did you know?French bouche comes from Latin bucca, a word for the cheek or mouth that also gave English the learned term buccal, used in anatomy for the inside of the cheek.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*bʰewg-
“to swell, bulge”
Latin
Latin
bucca
“cheek; mouth”
Late Latin
Latin
bŭcca
“mouth, cheek”
Old French
Old French
boche / bouche
“mouth”
Modern French
French
bouche
“mouth”