buit

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bʊ̟ɪt]

Noun

buit (plural [please provide])

1. booty, spoil

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

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Catalan

Etymology

From Old Catalan buit, from (compare Occitan voide, void, vued), from Vulgar Latin *vŏcĭtus (compare French vide, Old French vuit, Italian vuoto), itself related to vocuus, from Latin vacuus, or perhaps a participle of a Vulgar Latin verb *vŏcāre, *vŏcĕre as a variant of Latin vacō, vacāre (“be empty”) (or alternatively a variant of vacĭtus as a participle of a *vacĕre).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbujt]
• Rhymes: -ujt

Adjective

buit (feminine buida, masculine plural buits, feminine plural buides)

1. vacant
2. empty

Antonyms

• ple

Derived terms

• buidar
• buidesa
• buidor

Noun

buit m (plural buits)

1. empty space; gap
2. vacuum
3. void

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• buyt, buet (archaic)

Etymology

16th century, from Middle Low German büte, whence also German Beute and eventually all other related forms. Of uncertain ultimate origin; possibly a Celtic borrowing, from Proto-Celtic *boudi (“victory, booty, spoils”). If so, related to the name of Boudica, a British Celtic queen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bœy̯t/
  • IPA^(key): [bɜʏ̯t]
  • IPA^(key): [bœːt]

• audio (Belgium):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -œy̯t

Noun

buit m (uncountable)

1. spoil, booty

Derived terms

• krijgsbuit

Descendants

• → West Frisian: bût, bút

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (buit, supplement)
• Rolleston, T.W. (2018): Celtic Mythology