köken: Uncertain. Probably related to agō (“to do”). De Vaan suggests that the term might be an Old Latin spelling for *agulum, which would reflect older *age-los. The linguist Benedicte Nielsen suggests that the term could reflect earlier *h₂aǵ-tlom, itself from *h₂eǵ- + *-tlom, which she suggests may also be the source for Sanskrit aṣṭrā (“goad”). However, this theory requires an initial long-ā vowel.…
köken: Probably from a Vulgar Latin *bastō, bastonis, itself a modification of Late Latin bastum, or possibly noun use of the verb *bastō, from Ancient Greek βαστάζω (bastázō).