Masculine
Butt
Meaning
- (Northern-Germany,masculine,strong) European flounder (Platichthys flesus)
- (masculine,strong) lefteye flounder (fish of the family Bothidae)
- (masculine,strong) turbot (fish of the family Scophthalmidae)
Concepts
arrowtooth halibut
california halibut
kamchatka flounder
polar plaice
Synonyms
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/bʊt/
Etymology
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.
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