buscar

to seek, search for, look for, try to find, to scour; to look up (in a search engine, dictionary, etc.); to fetch, get, pick up; to bring on (oneself), to ask for

“Lo siento, pero te lo buscaste.” — I am sorry, but you brought this on yourself.

Inherited from Old Spanish buscar. Ultimate origin unknown, possibly cognate with bosque, cognate with Portuguese buscar. Or possibly from a Celtic language; compare Old Irish búaid (“victory”) and Welsh budd (“gain”), all from Proto-Celtic *boudi (“gain”).