Where does “botifarra” come from?
botifarra (Catalan) comes from Portuguese bota, from French botte, from Italian botta, from Italian bottare, from French bouter, from Middle French bouter, from Old French bouter, from Frankish bautan — to grow, swell; to swell, wax, grow; to blow; to...
botifarra (Catalan): botifarra, a kind of sausage; A Catalan card...
Definitions
- botifarra, a kind of sausage; A Catalan card...
Ancestry of “botifarra”, step by step
botifarra traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Portuguese bota
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | bota | boot; feminine singular of boto |
| 2 | French | botte | boot; something resembling a boot; oppression |
| 3 | Italian | botta | blow, hit, shock, knock, attack |
| 4 | Italian | bottare | — |
| 5 | French | bouter | to push; to remove flesh from the skin of an... |
| 6 | Middle French | bouter | to pull |
| 7 | Old French | bouter | to strike; to hit; to place; to put; to enter |
| 8 | Frankish | bautan | to push, strike, beat; to hit, strike; to hit,... |
| 9 | Proto-West Germanic | bautan | to beat |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | bautaną | to beat, push |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰewd- | to hit, strike; to beat, push; to strike, push,... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰew- | to grow, swell; to swell, wax, grow; to blow; to... |
via Late Latin buttis
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Late Latin | buttis | cask, wineskin; wineskin; barrel, cask |