butiller
Old French
editEtymology
editNoun
editbutiller oblique singular, m (oblique plural butillers, nominative singular butillers, nominative plural butiller)
- butler (officer in charge of wine)
Descendants
edit- 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
References
edit- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (boteillier, supplement)