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Where does “bottlenose” come from?

Bottlenose comes from English bottle and English nose, ultimately from Latin nodus meaning knot and Latin ars meaning skill or craft.

bottlenose (English): bottlenose dolphin; bottlenose whale; bottlenose...

Definitions

  1. bottlenose dolphin; bottlenose whale; bottlenose...

Ancestry of “bottlenose”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishbottleA container, typically made of glass or plastic...
2Englishbottle and glass—
3EnglisharseThe buttocks or more specifically, the anus; A...
4Middle Englisharsarse, anus; bottom, buttocks; plural of art
5Old Frencharz—
6Latinartessecond-person singular present active subjunctive...
7Latinarsart; skill, craft, handicraft, trade, power
8Proto-Italicartis—
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂értisfitting
10Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂er-to fit, to fix, to put together
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