bottyne

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Middle English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Old French butin (“plunder; allotment”).

Noun[edit]

bottyne (plural bottynes)[1]

  1. plunder, booty
    • c. 1450, Charles d'Orléans, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      To parten there bottyne, An oost of fowlis semblid in a croft.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants[edit]

  • English: booty, bootyn

References[edit]

  1. ^ “bǒttyne, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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