Where does “lèche-bottes” come from?
lèche-bottes (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...
lèche-bottes (French): bootlicker, brown noser (one who brownnoses)
Definitions
- bootlicker, brown noser (one who brownnoses)
Ancestry of “lèche-bottes”, step by step
lèche-bottes traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French botte
| 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... |