botel

English

Etymology

Blend of boat +‎ hotel

Noun

botel (plural botels)

1. a floating hotel; a boat that acts as a hotel

Alternative forms

• boatel

Related terms

• motel

Translations

floating hotel

• Czech: botel (cs) m
• Dutch: botel (nl) n
• Indonesian: botel, hotel perahu

See also

• houseboat

Anagrams

• Bolte, betol, blote

Bislama

Etymology

From English bottle.

Noun

botel

1. bottle

Cornish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bottle.

Noun

botel f (plural botellow)

1. bottle

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English botel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbotɛl]

Noun

botel m inan

1. botel

Declension

Declension of botel (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	botel	botely
genitive	botelu	botelů
dative	botelu	botelům
accusative	botel	botely
vocative	botele	botely
locative	botelu	botelech, botelích
instrumental	botelem	botely

Related terms

• hotel
• motel

Further reading

• “botel”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “botel”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “botel”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Dutch

Etymology

Blend of boot (“boat”) +‎ hotel (“hotel”). Attested from the late 1950s onwards.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

botel n (plural botels, diminutive botelletje n)

1. botel (floating hotel)

Further reading

• botel on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English botel.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbotɛl/ [ˈbo.t̪ɛl]
• Rhymes: -otɛl
• Syllabification: bo‧tel

Noun

botèl (plural botel-botel)

1. (tourism) botel: a floating hotel; a boat that acts as a hotel

   Synonym: hotel perahu

Further reading

• “botel” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Middle English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbutəl/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French boteille, botele.

Noun

botel (plural boteles)

1. bottle

Descendants

• English: bottle

References

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

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French botel.

Noun

botel (plural boteles)

1. bundle
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Manciples Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio 107, verso:

     Al thogh it be nat worth a botel hey.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• English: bottle (obsolete)

References

• “botel, n.²”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

From Old English botl, boþl, from Proto-West Germanic *bōþl, from Proto-Germanic *bōþlą.

Noun

botel (plural boteles)

1. house, dwelling

Descendants

• English: bottle (dialectal)

References

• “botel, n.³”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔtɛl/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔtal/

Noun

botel

1. Soft mutation of potel.

Mutation

Mutated forms of potel

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
potel	botel	mhotel	photel

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.