otre
See also: otrę
Franco-Provençal edit
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otre (Lyonnais)
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- otre in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu
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Etymology edit
From Latin uter, from earlier *udris, from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water”).
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otre m (plural otri)
- leather bottle; waterskin or wineskin
- 1825, “Libro III [Book 3]”, in Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade [Iliad], Milan: Giovanni Resnati e Gius. Bernardoni di Gio, translation of Ἰλιάς (Iliás) by Homer, published 1840, page 70, lines 323–327:
- Venían recando i banditori intanto
Dalle città le sacre ostie di pace,
Due trascelti agnelletti, e della terra
Giocondo frutto generoso vino
Chiuso in otre caprigno. […]- Meanwhile the announcers were coming, bringing the sacred peace offerings from the cities: two carefully picked lambs, and generous wine, pleasant harvest of the soil, sealed in a goat wineskin
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otre
- Alternative form of oter
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otre m
- indefinite plural of oter
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin alter. False cognate of English other.
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otre