Reconstruction:Latin/buttia

This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Latin

Etymology

Related to Late Latin buttis, itself possibly borrowed from Ancient Greek βοῦττις (boûttis), perhaps from the diminutive βουττιον n (bouttion) with plural in /-a/.

Presumably this is the butia listed in the Appendix Probi under ‘always-plural neuter nouns’ (nomina generis neutri semper pluralis numeri). However there is no indication of its meaning there.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbot͡sʲa/

Noun

*buttia f (Proto-Western-Romance)

cask, barrel

Reconstruction notes

Possibly also the origin of Italian boccia, but this is debated.

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	*/ˈbot͡sʲa/	*/ˈbot͡sʲas/
oblique	*/ˈbot͡sʲa/	*/ˈbot͡sʲas/

Descendants

Italo-Dalmatian:
- >? Italian: boccia
  - → Catalan: botxa
  - → English: boccia
  - → Galician: bocha
  - → Japanese: ボッチャ (botcha)
  - → Korean: 보치아 (bochia)
  - → Portuguese: bocha
  - → Spanish: bocha
- Sicilian: bozza
  - → Maltese: bozza
North Italian:
- Venetan: bozza
  - → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: боца
    
    Latin script: bȍca
  - → Macedonian: боца (boca)
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: bosse
- Old French: boisse, busse (see there for further descendants)
- Piedmontese: bunza
→ Proto-West Germanic: *buttjā (see there for further descendants)
→ Proto-Slavic: *bъči (see there for further descendants)
→ Slovene: búča
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: бу̏ћа

Latin script: bȕća

References

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*bŭttia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 1: A–B, page 660