Where does “botchy” come from?
botchy (English) comes from English botch, from Old English botettan, from Old English bōt, from Proto-Turkic botu, from Spanish voto, from Latin vōtum, from Latin votus, from Latin vovere — to promise, to vow; to praise.
botchy (English): Full of botches or mistakes; poorly done
Definitions
- Full of botches or mistakes; poorly done
Ancestry of “botchy”, step by step
botchy traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English botch
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | botch | To perform in an unacceptable or incompetent... |
| 2 | Old English | botettan | to improve |
| 3 | Old English | bōt | help, relief, advantage, remedy; compensation for... |
| 4 | Proto-Turkic | botu | — |
| 5 | Spanish | voto | vote; vow |
| 6 | Latin | vōtum | promise, dedication, vow, solemn pledge |
| 7 | Latin | votus | vowed, promised; devoted to (a deity); having been vowed |
| 8 | Latin | vovere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 9 | Latin | voveo | I vow, promise; I dedicate or devote to a deity;... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | wogʷeō | I vow, promise; dedicate or devote to a deity; I... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁wegʷʰ- | to promise, to vow; to praise |
via English Y
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Y | A figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A... |
| 2 | English | yuri | A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or... |
| 3 | Japanese | 百合 | lily |
| 4 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 5 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 6 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 7 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 8 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 9 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |