Butt

Senso (Inglese)

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)

Sinonimi

Flunder

Plattfisch

Pfeilzahnheilbutt

arktischer Plattfisch

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/bʊt/

Etimologia (Inglese)

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.