Butt

Signification

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

Genre

♂️ Masculin

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/bʊt/

Étymologie

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.