Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
The buttocks or anus (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass). · The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts. · Body; self. · The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
From Middle English but, butte (“goal, mark, butt of land”), from Old English byt, bytt (“small piece of land”) and *butt (attested in diminutive Old English buttuc (“end, small piece of land”) > English buttock), from Proto-West Germanic *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“end, piece”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰnós (“bottom”), later thematic variant of Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn ~ *bʰudʰn-, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“deep”). Cognate with Norwegian butt (“stump, block”), Faroese buttur (“wooden block”), Icelandic bútur (“piece, fragment”), Low German butt (“blunt, clumsy”). Influenced by Old French but, butte (“but, mark”), ultimately from the same Germanic source. Compare also Albanian bythë (“buttocks”), Ancient Greek πυθμήν (puthmḗn, “bottom of vessel”), Latin fundus (“bottom”) and Sanskrit बुध्न (budhná, “bottom”), from the same Proto-Indo-European root. Related to bottom, boot. PIE word *bʰudʰmḗn
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- Inherited-form mentionbutenm
- Inherited-form mentionbytang
- Cognate mentionbuttucang · end, small piece of land
- Cognate mentionbuttocken
- Inherited-form mention*buttgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*buttazgem-pro · end, piece
- Inherited-form mention*bʰudʰnósine-pro
- Derivation mention*bʰudʰmḗnine-pro
- Derivation mention*dʰewbʰ-ine-pro · deep
- Cognate mentionbuttno · stump, block
- Cognate mentionbutturfo · wooden block
- Cognate mentionbúturis · piece, fragment
- Cognate mentionbuttnds · blunt, clumsy
- Cognate mentionbutfro
- Cognate mentionbythësq · buttocks
- Cognate mentionπυθμήνgrc · bottom of vessel
- Cognate mentionfundusla · bottom
- Cognate mentionबुध्नsa · bottom
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