Where does “bottlemaking” come from?
bottlemaking (English) comes from English making, from English -ing, from Old English -ing, from Old English -tūn, from Old English tūn, from Proto-West Germanic tūn, from Proto-Germanic tūną, from Gaulish dunum — smoke; mist, haze.
bottlemaking (English): The manufacture of bottles
Definitions
- The manufacture of bottles
Ancestry of “bottlemaking”, step by step
bottlemaking traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English making
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | making | The act of forming, causing, or constituting;... |
| 2 | English | -ing | Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns,... |
| 3 | Old English | -ing | Forming nouns from verbs, indicating action,... |
| 4 | Old English | -tūn | homestead, village, town |
| 5 | Old English | tūn | enclosure, yard; place; dwelling |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | tūn | fence |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | tūną | fence; enclosure |
| 8 | Gaulish | dunum | fort; hill, hillfort |
| 9 | Proto-Celtic | dūnom | stronghold, rampart |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰewh₂- | smoke; mist, haze |
via English bottle
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | bottle | A container, typically made of glass or plastic... |
| 2 | English | bottle and glass | arse |
| 3 | English | arse | The buttocks or more specifically, the anus; A... |
| 4 | Middle English | ars | arse, anus; bottom, buttocks; plural of art |
| 5 | Old French | arz | — |
| 6 | Latin | artes | second-person singular present active subjunctive... |
| 7 | Latin | ars | art; skill, craft, handicraft, trade, power |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | artis | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂értis | fitting |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂er- | to fit, to fix, to put together |