Where does “bontie” come from?

bontie (Old French) comes from Latin bodina, from Proto-Celtic bonnicca — boundary.

Ancestry of “bontie”, step by step

bontie traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin bodina

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinbodina—
2Proto-Celticbonniccaboundary

via Latin butina

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinbutinaa bound, limit; bottle; limit, boundary
2Ancient Greekπῡτῑ́νηflask

Words derived from “bontie”

Every word from Proto-Celtic bonnicca →Every word from Latin bodina →
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