bút

See also: Appendix:Variations of "but"

Hungarian

Etymology

bú +‎ -t

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbuːt]
• Hyphenation: bút

Noun

bút

1. accusative singular of bú

Tày

Pronunciation

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [ɓut̚˧˥]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [ɓut̚˦]

Etymology 1

Compare bốt.

Adjective

bút

1. (of foods) stale

   khẩu bút ― stale rice

   pẻng bút ― stale bread

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Vietnamese bút. Doublet of pít.

Noun

(Classifier: mạc) bút

1. penholder

   bút chừn ― pencil

   bút lếch ― penholder (made of iron)

   bút khuôn ― quill pen

   pác bút ― pen's nib

   Âu mạc bút lài xư.

   Use a pen to write letters.

Etymology 3

Verb

bút

1. to twirl an object inside a hole or a tube

   Synonyms: bứt, vặt, boi

   bút khỉ xu ― to pick one's nose

References

• Léopold Michel Cadière (1910), Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎^[1] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• bất (rare)

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 筆 (“writing brush, pen”). Its relationship with viết (“to write”) is dubious.

Diachronically, this is an early loan that came to be accepted as Sino-Vietnamese. Possibly descends from a regional Old Chinese ancestor which had no */-r-/ (compare Eastern-Han-period Yan dialectal pronunciation 弗 (OC *put) (reconstructed by Baxter & Sagart 2014:43) of 聿/筆 [2]) and predated the loaning of Sino-Korean 필(筆) (pil) and Sino-Japanese 筆 (hitsu).

Cognate with Korean 붓 (but), a vernacular loan borrowed at around the same time.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓut̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓʊk̚˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓʊk͡p̚˦˥]

Noun

bút • (筆, 芣, 笔) (classifier cây, cái, chiếc)

1. any piece of equipment used for writing with one's hand, except chalk

   Synonym: (Southern Vietnam) viết

2. (figurative, writing, journalism) someone who writes for a living, such as a professional writer, editorialist or journalist

   Ông là một trong những cây bút gạo cội của văn học Việt.

   He was one of the seasoned penmen of Vietnamese literature.

Derived terms

• bút bi
• bút chì
• bút kí
• bút máy
• bút mực
• bút nghiên
• bút sa gà chết
• bút sáp

Descendants

• → Tai Dam: ꪚꪴꪒ

Waigeo

Verb

-bút

1. (intransitive) to reach

Conjugation

Class IV conjugation of bút

		singular	dual	paucal	plural
1st person	inclusive	yabút	tutabút	(a)tútabút	tabút
	exclusive		umabút	atúmabút	ámabút
2nd person		nyabút	mumabút	matúmabút	mabút
3rd person	animate	nabút	ulabút	atúlabút	labút
	inanimate	ambút			sibút

References

• Arnold, Laura (2018), Grammar of Ambel, an Austronesian language of Raja Ampat, west New Guinea (PhD thesis)‎^[3]