Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *bukā, continuing *bʰok 'to burn', further related to Proto-Indo-European *bʰōg 'to roast, to bake'^[1]. Possibly a derivative of a disused verb. Close to Phrygian βεκος ‎(begos, “bread”), Illyrian bagaron ‎(“warm”), Armenian բոց ‎(bocʿ, “flame”), Vulgar Latin focacius ‎(“kind of baked dough”) from focus ‎(“fire”), Ancient Greek φώγω ‎(phṓgō, “roast”, verb) and Old English bacan ‎(“to bake”). An alternative etymology derives it from Latin bucca ‎(“mouth”), with a semantic development to 'food' through a Balkan source^[2].