butiller
Old French
Etymology
From boteille + -ier.
Noun
butiller m (oblique plural butillers, nominative singular butillers, nominative plural butiller)
- butler (officer in charge of wine)
Descendants
- French: boutillier
- French: Boutillier (family name; almost only in Europe)
- French: Bouthillier (family name; almost only in Québec)
- → Middle English: boteler, butler, butlere, botelere, botyler
- English: Boteler, butler
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (boteillier, supplement)