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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

Definitions

  1. bootmaker

Ancestry of “bottier”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchbotteboot; something resembling a boot; oppression
2Italianbottablow, hit, shock, knock, attack
3Italianbottare—
4Frenchbouterto push; to remove flesh from the skin of an...
5Middle Frenchbouterto pull
6Old Frenchbouterto strike; to hit; to place; to put; to enter
7Frankishbautanto push, strike, beat; to hit, strike; to hit,...
8Proto-West Germanicbautanto beat
9Proto-Germanicbautanąto beat, push
10Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰewd-to hit, strike; to beat, push; to strike, push,...
11Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰew-to grow, swell; to swell, wax, grow; to blow; to...
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