Etymology

bottle-o

Today it means: A bottle shop. Full definition →

English oh ← Middle English o ← Old French oh
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The story

  1. Latinbuttis
  2. Late Latinbutticula
  3. Old Frenchboteille
  4. Middle Englishbotel
  5. Englishbottle
  6. Latinō
  7. Old Frenchoh
  8. Middle Englisho
  9. EnglishO
  10. Englishoh
  11. English todaybottle-o

From bottle + -o (diminutive suffix).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.