bothom

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Middle English

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Noun

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bothom

  1. Alternative form of botme

Yola

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle English botom, from Old English botm, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bothom

  1. bottom[1]
    • 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 108:
      A bothom vele udh.
      The bottom fell out.
  2. The thread wound into balls.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867
  2. ^ Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 135