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) worm ==== Descendants ==== →? English: bot, ⇒ botfly === References === MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “botus”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[1], Stirling, →ISBN “bot”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.