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butte

See also: Butte and butté

English

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Buttes in Monument Valley
 

Etymology

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PIE word
*bʰudʰmḗn

Borrowed from French butte (“mound”). Related to butt via a West Germanic cognate.

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butte (plural buttes)

  1. (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].

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  1. ^ 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, →DOI, →ISBN, § 10, page 38.

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Danish

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Adjective

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butte

  1. definite of but
  2. plural of but

French

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Etymology

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Feminine form of but (“aim, target”).

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butte f (plural buttes)

  1. small hill, mound, hillock; knoll
    Synonyms: colline, tertre, motte
  2. heap
    Faire une butte autour des plantes de pomme de terre.
    Make a heap around the potato plants.
  3. (archery) a mound of dirt upon which targets were placed to practice shooting
  4. (by extension, figurative) butt, target

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  • → English: butte

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Latin

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butte

  1. ablative singular of buttis

Middle English

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Etymology

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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”).

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butte (plural buttes)

  1. butt

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Norwegian Bokmål

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butte

  1. definite singular of butt
  2. plural of butt

Norwegian Nynorsk

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butte

  1. definite singular of butt
  2. plural of butt
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