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(Engels)

(declension-2) kiss, especially of the hand
(declension-2, poetic) kiss of the lips (esp. used this way in Catullus and Martial)

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

[ˈbaː.si.ũː]

Probably borrowed from Celtic, from an expressive root such as Proto-Indo-European *bu-. Compare Middle Irish pusóc (“kiss”), English buss, German Buss (“kiss”), Polish buzia, buziak (“kiss”), Lithuanian bučiúoti (“to kiss”), Albanian buzë (“lip”), and Persian بوس (bus, “kiss”).