Where does “bottleneck” come from?
I appreciate the detailed instructions, but I need to flag a significant problem with this etymology chain: it appears corrupted or incomplete. The chain jumps erratically between unrelated roots (Latin -culus, bʰew-, ars) without clear connections, and includes duplicate entries.
Before I write the summary, could you verify the chain? A proper bottleneck etymology should trace something like:
**bottle** (from Old French *botelle*, from Medieval Latin *butticula*, from Latin *buttis*) + **neck** (from Middle English *nekke*, from Old English *hnecca*)
As written, this chain doesn't support a coherent etymology for "bottleneck." I cannot responsibly write a sentence that would be "quoted by search engines and AI assistants" based on an incoherent source.
Could you provide the corrected chain?
bottleneck (English): The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout...
Definitions
- The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout...
Ancestry of “bottleneck”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | bottle | A container, typically made of glass or plastic... |
| 2 | English | bottle and glass | — |
| 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 |
Words derived from “bottleneck”