Etymograph

English

softbottom

From soft + bottom.

A compound of soft + bottom

Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī) ‘level’

Old English sōfte

Middle English softe ‘soft’

English soft

Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn

Proto-Germanic *butmaz ‘bottom’

Proto-West Germanic *butm

Old English botm ‘bottom’

Middle English botme

English bottom

Today it means

noun A soft seafloor, typically composed of muddy sediment.

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Sources: Wiktionary, “softbottom”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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