bottyne

Middle English

Alternative forms

• botye, buty

Etymology

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

Noun

bottyne (plural bottynes)

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

• English: booty, bootyn (archaic)