botm

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Old English

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *botm, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz (ground), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (earth, bottom).

Cognate with Old Saxon bodom (bottom), Old High German bodam (floor, bottom), Old Norse botn (floor, ground), Old English bytme (keel of a ship), Sanskrit बुध्न (budhná, bottom, ground), Avestan 𐬠𐬏𐬥𐬋 (būnō, bottom, ground), Latin fundus (bottom). Doublet of bodan.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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botm m

  1. bottom; foundation
  2. ground
  3. abyss

Declension

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Descendants

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