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Middle English
Noun
bothom
- Alternative form of botme
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English botom, from Old English botm, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz.
Pronunciation
Noun
bothom
- bottom
1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 108:A bothom vele udh.- The bottom fell out.
- The thread wound into balls.
References
- ^ 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
- ^ 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