butte
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English
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Etymology
[edit ]| PIE word |
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| *bhudhmḗn |
Borrowed from French butte ("mound"). Related to butt via a West Germanic cognate.
Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]butte (plural buttes )
- (US ) An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.
- Coordinate term: mesa
- 1951, Dorothy M. Johnson, Warrior's Exile; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 64:
- Then he set his course straight for a butte called Where the Eagles Rest.
- 1955 September 15, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita , 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 2, page 158:
- More mountains; [...] buttes of black lava; [...].
- 2013 November 27, John Grotzinger, "The world of Mars", in The New York Times [1] :
- Those multitoned buttes and mesas [of the Grand Canyon], and that incandescent sequence of colorful bands that make one of the natural wonders of the world so grand, can also be found over 100 million miles away [on Mars].
Derived terms
[edit ]Translations
[edit ]hill
- Arabic: شاهد صخري
- Azerbaijani: qalıq
- Catalan: mola (ca) f
- Danish: butte (da) c
- Finnish: butte (fi)
- French: butte (fr) f, gour (fr) m
- German: Härtling (de) m
- Irish: buta m
- Italian: butte f, tacco (it) m
- Kabuverdianu: rubon
- Navajo: dah azką́
- Portuguese: planalto (pt) m
- Russian: холм с крутыми склонами (xolm s krutymi sklonami), остане́ц (ru) m (ostanéc)
- Sardinian: tacchixeddu m, taccu m
- Spanish: cuello volcánico m, otero (es) m, páramo (es) m
- Thai: เนินยอดป้าน
- Turkish: tanık tepe (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: كومه (küme)
References
[edit ]- ^ Hall, Joseph Sargent (2 March 1942), "1. The Vowel Sounds of Stressed Syllables", in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King's Crown Press, →DOI , →ISBN, § 10, page 38.
Further reading
[edit ]Danish
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French
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Feminine form of but ("aim, target").
Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]butte f (plural buttes )
- small hill, mound, hillock; knoll
- heap
- Faire une butte autour des plantes de pomme de terre.
- Make a heap around the potato plants.
- (archery ) a mound of dirt upon which targets were placed to practice shooting
- (by extension, figurative ) butt, target
Derived terms
[edit ]Descendants
[edit ]- → English: butte
Further reading
[edit ]- "butte", in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Latin
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[edit ]butte
Middle English
[edit ]Etymology 1
[edit ]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").
Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]butte (plural buttes )
Descendants
[edit ]References
[edit ]- "butte, n.(4)", in MED Online , Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]butte
- (AB language ) alternative form of bitte
Etymology 3
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]butte (plural buttes )
- flounder, Pleuronectidae spp.
Derived terms
[edit ]Norwegian Bokmål
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[edit ]butte
Norwegian Nynorsk
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