Where does “bugger” come from?
Bugger comes from English bugge, from Old French -er, from Latin -are, ultimately from Proto-Italic -os, though the original meaning is unknown.
bugger (English): A heretic; Someone who commits buggery; a...
Definitions
- A heretic; Someone who commits buggery; a...
Ancestry of “bugger”, step by step
bugger traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle English bougre
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | bougre | heretic |
| 2 | Old French | bougre | — |
| 3 | Medieval Latin | Bulgarus | Bulgarian; Bulgar |
| 4 | Slavic | блъгаринъ | — |
| 5 | Old Turkic | 𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰍𐰀 | to stir; to produce a state of disorder, put in... |
| 6 | Proto-Turkic | bulgar | disturber, disturbing |
| 7 | Proto-Turkic | bulga- | to stir, stir up; to produce a state of disorder |