boiteag

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Related to botus (“belly worm”), itself borrowed from Middle English bottes, plural of bot, bott (also found in Scots batts), of unknown ultimate origin, but perhaps borrowed from a lost Middle Low German word.

Noun

boiteag f (genitive singular boiteig, plural boiteagan)

1. worm

Descendants

• →? English: bot, ⇒ botfly

References

• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “botus”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN
• “bot”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.