Butt

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See also: butt, but, bút, bût, būt, and but-

English

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Proper noun

Butt (plural Butts)

  1. A surname.
    1. A surname from English.
    2. A surname from German.
    3. A surname from Kashmiri.

Further reading

German

Etymology

Borrowed from German Low German Butt, from Middle Low German but, butte, from Old Saxon *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (stumpy). Cognate with Dutch bot and with English butt, in all senses.

Apparently this word had the primitive meaning of being a stump, i. e. being flattened by reason of beating, whereby the root might be identified with the one of English beat and German bossen, bosseln.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʊt/
  • (file)

Noun

Butt m (strong, genitive Buttes or Butts, plural Butte)

  1. (Northern Germany) European flounder (Platichthys flesus)
  2. lefteye flounder (fish of the family Bothidae)
  3. turbot (fish of the family Scophthalmidae)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • Butt” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • Butt” in Duden online