Butter
Meaning
butter
Concepts
butter
lard
fat
grease
oil
butyric
edible fat
margarine
suet
tallow
wax
Bath Oliver
colcannon
shortcake
Frequency
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbʊtɐ/
Etymology
From Middle High German buter, butter, from Old High German butera, from Proto-West Germanic *buterā (“butter”). Though originally feminine, the word became masculine throughout Upper German and in southern dialects of West Central German. The now established feminine gender is East Central German, reinforced by Middle Low German boter f.
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