Where does “butchery” come from?
Butchery derives from English butcher, from English butch, ultimately tracing through repeated Old English and Middle English forms of butcher and butch.
butchery (English): The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a...
Definitions
- The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a...
Ancestry of “butchery”, step by step
butchery traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English butch
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | butch | Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or... |
| 2 | English | butcher | A person who prepares and sells meat; A brutal or... |
| 3 | Middle English | bocher | A butcher meat slaughterer and retailer |
| 4 | Old French | bouchier | butcher |
| 5 | Old French | bouc | goat |
| 6 | Latin | buccus | he-goat |
| 7 | Frankish | bukk | male goat; buck, goat; buck, male goat |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | *bukkaz | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰuǵ- | buck, he-goat |
| 10 | Proto-North Caucasian | bVχc̣V | — |
| 11 | Proto-North Caucasian | bVc̣V | young he-goat |
via Middle English bocherie
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | bocherie | A slaughterhouse often with [[facility |
| 2 | French | boucherie | butchershop; butchery, butchering; bloodbath,... |
| 3 | French | -erie | denoting a shop selling a certain product;... |
| 4 | Old French | -erie | used to form feminine nouns |
| 5 | Old French | -ie | indicates a feminine noun, often an abstract one |
| 6 | Latin | -ia | Used to form a feminine abstract noun, usually... |
| 7 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |