Butter

Various origins:

• From butter, a metonymic occupational surname for a dairyman or seller of butter.
• From Old French butor (“bittern”), a nickname for someone who resembled a bittern, perhaps because of his voice.
• Borrowed from Dutch and German Butter, possibly a short form of various compound names.

Butter (plural Butters)

1. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Butter is the 39164^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 562 individuals. Butter is most common among White (72.95%) and Black/African American (10.14%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Butter”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 262.

From Middle High German buter, butter, from Old High German butera, from Proto-West Germanic *buterā (“butter”).

Though originally feminine, the word became masculine throughout Upper German and in southern dialects of West Central German. The now established feminine gender is East Central German, reinforced by Middle Low German boter f.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʊtɐ/

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• Rhymes: -ʊtɐ

Butter f (genitive Butter, plural Buttern) or
Butter (dialectal) m (strong, genitive Butters, plural Butter)

1. butter

   Synonym: (Switzerland) Anke

• In the formal standard language, Butter is exclusively feminine. Masculine use is sometimes adopted from local dialects into colloquial German, especially in Swabia.

• → Esperanto: butero
  • → Ido: butro
• → Macedonian: путер (puter)
• → Serbo-Croatian: pȕter / пу̏тер
• → Slovene: púter (tonal orthography)
• → Lower Sorbian: butra

• “Butter” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Butter” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Butter” in Duden online
• Butter on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

From Middle High German buter, from Old High German butira, from Proto-West Germanic *buterā, from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτυρον (boúturon).

Cognate with German Butter.

• IPA^(key): /ˈputɐ/

Butter f

1. butter

   Ich esse Brod mit Butter.

   I eat bread with butter.

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary