Etymology

bootless

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Today it means: Without boots. Full definition →

Middle English bootles
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bootless · adjective1

  1. Middle English · inherited frombootles
  2. English todaybootless

From Middle English bootles, botelees; equivalent to boot + -less.

bootless · adjective2

  1. Old English · inherited frombōtlēas
  2. Middle English · inherited fromboteles
  3. English todaybootless

From Middle English boteles, botles, from Old English bōtlēas; equivalent to boot (“profit; use; behoof”) + -less. Doublet of botleas.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishbōtlēas all →

botleas

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