Where does “botifarró” come from?
botifarró (Catalan) comes from Catalan botifarra, from Portuguese 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...
botifarró (Catalan): morcilla a type of blood sausage
Definitions
- morcilla a type of blood sausage
Ancestry of “botifarró”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Catalan | botifarra | botifarra, a kind of sausage; A Catalan card... |
| 2 | Portuguese | bota | boot; feminine singular of boto |
| 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... |