Butt

Signification (Anglais)

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)

Concepts

flet

poisson plat

Synonymes

Flunder

Plattfisch

Pfeilzahnheilbutt

arktischer Plattfisch

Traductions

tarbot

platija

bot

bastard halibut

flounder

passerelle

polar plaice

olive flounder

kamchatka flounder

flukes

rectum

passera

california halibut

falsa passera

arrowtooth halibut

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/bʊt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Appartenant à néerlandais: bot

Appartenant à anglais: butt

Appartenant à anglais: beat

Appartenant à allemand: bossen

In summary

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.