botar
Spanish
verb
Definitions
- to bounce
- (Latin America) to throw, throw away
- (Latin America) to fire, dismiss
Etymology
Derived from Old French boter (strike) derived from Frankish *buttan, *bautan (strike, beat, hit, push) derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰau- (beat, strike, hew).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰau-
Gloss
beat, strike, hew
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- butteris English
- botta Italian
- buttare Italian
- ributtare Italian
- aboutir French
- bouter French
- bouton French
- débouter French
- botarata Spanish, Castilian
- rebotar Spanish, Castilian
- *bʰau- Proto-Indo-European
- botar Portuguese
- *bautaną Proto-Germanic
- boter Old French
- bouter Old French
- bouter Middle French
- botar Old Portuguese
- *bautan Frankish
- *buttan Frankish
- *bōtan, *bautan Frankish
- benta Papiamentu
- buta Papiamentu
- bota Kabuverdianu
- bota Guinea-Bissau Creole
- betar Franco-Provençal