Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/buterā

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron, literally “cow cheese”).

Noun

*buterā f

1. butter

   Synonym: *ankwō

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*buterā
Genitive	*buterōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*buterā	*buterōn
Accusative	*buterōn	*buterōn
Genitive	*buterōn	*buterōnō
Dative	*buterōn	*buterōm
Instrumental	*buterōn	*buterōm

Descendants

• Old English: butere
  • Middle English: butera, buter, butter
    • Scots: butter, buter
    • English: butter
      • → Japanese: バター (batā)
      • → Korean: 빠다 (ppada) (North Korea), 버터 (beoteo) (South Korea)
      • → Sinhalese: බටර් (baṭar)
      • → Zulu: ibhotela
    • Yola: buthther
• Old Frisian: butere
  • Saterland Frisian: Buutere
  • West Frisian: bûter
• Old Saxon: *butira, *butera
  • Middle Low German: boter, botter
    • German Low German: Botter; (some Low Prussian varieties:) Batter, Potter
    • Dutch Low Saxon: botter, butter, boeter
    • Plautdietsch: Botta
• Old Dutch: *butera
  • Middle Dutch: botere
    • Dutch: boter
      • Afrikaans: botter
    • Limburgish: bótter
    • West Flemish: beuter, butter
• Old High German: butira
  • Middle High German: buter
    • Alemannic German: Butter
    • Bavarian: Budda
      • Viennese: Butta
    • German: Butter
      • → Esperanto: butero
        • → Ido: butro
      • → Macedonian: путер (puter)
      • → Serbo-Croatian: pȕter / пу̏тер
      • → Slovene: púter (tonal orthography)
    • Gottscheerish: púttər
    • Hunsrik: Butter
    • Luxembourgish: Botter
    • Palatinate German:
      • Pennsylvania German: Budder
    • East Central German: Putter (Silesian)
    • Yiddish: פּוטער‎ (puter)