Where does “bottier” come from?
bottier (French) comes from French botte, from Italian botta, from Italian bottare, from French bouter, from Middle French bouter, from Old French bouter, from Frankish bautan, from Proto-West Germanic bautan — to grow, swell; to swell, wax, grow; to blow; to...
bottier (French): bootmaker
Ancestry of “bottier”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | botte | boot; something resembling a boot; oppression |
| 2 | Italian | botta | blow, hit, shock, knock, attack |
| 3 | Italian | bottare | — |
| 4 | French | bouter | to push; to remove flesh from the skin of an... |
| 5 | Middle French | bouter | to pull |
| 6 | Old French | bouter | to strike; to hit; to place; to put; to enter |
| 7 | Frankish | bautan | to push, strike, beat; to hit, strike; to hit,... |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | bautan | to beat |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | bautaną | to beat, push |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰewd- | to hit, strike; to beat, push; to strike, push,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰew- | to grow, swell; to swell, wax, grow; to blow; to... |