buter

== French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /by.te/ Homophones: butai, buté, butée, butées, butés, butez, buttai, butté, buttée, buttées, butter, buttés, buttez === Verb === buter to stop dead to prop up, buttress (informal) to kill (figuratively) to obsess; to become obsessed ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === “buter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 === Anagrams === brute, rebut, tuber == Middle English == === Alternative forms === buttyr, butter, botyr, buttir, butre, buttur, buttur, boter, buttre butera, butere (Early Middle English) === Etymology === From Old English butere, from Proto-West Germanic *buterā, from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbutər(ə)/ === Noun === buter (uncountable) butter (spread made of churned cream) ==== Related terms ==== boterflye ==== Descendants ==== English: butter (see there for further descendants) Scots: butter, buter Yola: buthther, buththere ==== References ==== “buter(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 September 2018. == Middle High German == === Alternative forms === butere, puter === Etymology === Inherited from Old High German butira. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈbutər/ === Noun === buter m or f butter ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Alemannic German: Butter Bavarian: Budda Viennese: Butta Central Franconian: Hunsrik: Butter Luxembourgish: Botter German: Butter (see there for further descendants) Gottscheerish: púttər Palatinate German: Pennsylvania German: Budder East Central German: Putter (Silesian) Yiddish: פּוטער (puter) === References === Benecke, Georg Friedrich; Müller, Wilhelm; Zarncke, Friedrich (1863), “buter”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “buter”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch‎[1] (in German), 3rd edition