From Middle English bulk, bolke, borrowed from Old Norse búlki, from Proto-Germanic *bulkô, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ-. Compare Icelandic búlkast, Swedish dialectal bulk, Danish bulk.
Conflated with Middle English bouk.
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