Butter

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Meaning

butter

Concepts

butter

lard

fat

grease

oil

butyric

edible fat

margarine

suet

tallow

wax

Bath Oliver

colcannon

shortcake

Frequency

B2
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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