butte
English edit
Etymology edit
PIE word |
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*bʰudʰmḗn |
Borrowed from French butte (“mound”).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈbjuːt/
- (Southern American English) IPA(key): /ˈbʌt/[1]
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -uːt
- Homophone: beaut
Noun edit
butte (plural buttes)
- (US) An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.
- Coordinate term: mesa
- 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
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References edit
- ^ Hall, Joseph Sargent (1942 March 2) “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, , →ISBN, § 10, page 38.
Further reading edit
Danish edit
Adjective edit
butte
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 edit
Noun edit
butte
Middle English edit
Etymology 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.
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Adjective edit
butte
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Adjective edit
butte