Where does “slyboots” come from?
slyboots (English) comes from English boots, from English boot, from French botte, from Italian botta, from Italian bottare, from French bouter, from Middle French bouter, from Old French bouter — to grow, swell; to swell, wax, grow; to blow; to...
slyboots (English): A person who is clever or shrewd, especially one...
Definitions
- A person who is clever or shrewd, especially one...
Ancestry of “slyboots”, step by step
slyboots traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English boots
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | boots | plural of boot; A condom; A servant at a hotel... |
| 2 | English | boot | A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg; A blow... |
| 3 | French | botte | boot; something resembling a boot; oppression |
| 4 | Italian | botta | blow, hit, shock, knock, attack |
| 5 | Italian | bottare | — |
| 6 | French | bouter | to push; to remove flesh from the skin of an... |
| 7 | Middle French | bouter | to pull |
| 8 | Old French | bouter | to strike; to hit; to place; to put; to enter |
| 9 | Frankish | bautan | to push, strike, beat; to hit, strike; to hit,... |
| 10 | Proto-West Germanic | bautan | to beat |
| 11 | Proto-Germanic | bautaną | to beat, push |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰewd- | to hit, strike; to beat, push; to strike, push,... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰew- | to grow, swell; to swell, wax, grow; to blow; to... |
via English sly
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | sly | Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily;... |
| 2 | Middle English | sly | Judicious, considered, shrewd; having or... |
| 3 | Old Norse | slǿgr | crafty, cunning, sly |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | slōgiz | able to strike; sly, cunning, clever |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | slak- | to hit; strike; to hit, strike, throw; to hit,... |