Where does “atzera bota” come from?
atzera bota (Basque) comes from Basque bota, from Spanish bota, from French botte, from Italian botta, from Italian bottare, from French bouter, from Middle French bouter, from Old French bouter — to grow, swell; to swell, wax, grow; to blow; to...
atzera bota (Basque): to throw backwards
Definitions
- to throw backwards
Ancestry of “atzera bota”, step by step
atzera bota traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Basque bota
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Basque | bota | to throw |
| 2 | Spanish | bota | boot; wineskin, bota bag; soft pouch, usually... |
| 3 | French | botte | boot; something resembling a boot; oppression |
| 4 | Italian | botta | blow, hit, shock, knock, attack |
| 5 | Italian | bottare | — |
| 6 | French | bouter | to push; to remove flesh from the skin of an... |
| 7 | Middle French | bouter | to pull |
| 8 | Old French | bouter | to strike; to hit; to place; to put; to enter |
| 9 | Frankish | bautan | to push, strike, beat; to hit, strike; to hit,... |
| 10 | Proto-West Germanic | bautan | to beat |
| 11 | Proto-Germanic | bautaną | to beat, push |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰewd- | to hit, strike; to beat, push; to strike, push,... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰew- | to grow, swell; to swell, wax, grow; to blow; to... |
via Basque atzera
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Basque | atzera | backwards |