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Bottcher
German
Etymology
In its modern form pertaining to de Bottich tub, but not directly related to it. Instead from de gml bödeker with the Low German suffix gml -ker from gml böde barrel (compare de Bütt); in early modern German (East Central German) adapted to the High German consonantism as botticher (at that time possibly already associated with Bottich).
Pronunciation
de /ˈbœtçɐ/
de De-Böttcher.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Noun
m in
de regional chiefly northern and eastern Germany cooper
de Büttner Fassbinder Küfer Schäffler
Usage notes
The term “cooper” is one of several in which regional fragmentation has never made way for a generally accepted standard term.
Declension
m
Derived terms
de Böttcherei
de böttchern
Proper noun
surname
de occupations
See also
de Bottich
Further reading
de Occupations