Bütte

Meaning

  1. tub, vat, barrel (open vessel, often large and made of wood)
  2. a lectern for a comedic speaker in a carnival event, originally and still usually in the form of a wooden barrel
  3. a wide vessel used in papermaking

Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

biggti

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

bittene

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Hyphenated as
Büt‧te
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbʏtə/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German bütte, from Old High German *butta, from Proto-West Germanic *buttjā. Cognate with Yiddish ביט (bit).

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