Butcher in my family tree
English: occupational name for a butcher or slaughterer, Middle English bocher, boucher (Old French bouchier, a derivative of bouc ram).
Variants: Bucher, Boucher, Boutcher; Bowker, Boucker.
Cognates: French (also with the transferred sense executioner): Boucher, Bouchier, Bouché; Bouchez (Northern France); Bouchey (Eastern France). Provençal: Bouquier. Catalan: Boquer. Italian: Beccaro, Beccari, Beccai, Beccaio; Boccieri; Buccieri (Calabria); Beccheri; Beghe (Piedmont).
Diminutives: French: Bouchereau, Boucherot, Boucheron. Italian: Becherini.
Augmentative: Italian: Becheroni.
Patromymic: Italian: Del Beccaro.
Equivalents (not cognate): Spanish: Carnicero. German: Metzger. Polish: Rzeźnik. Russian: Myasnikov.
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