Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/buterā

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron, literally “cow cheese”).

Noun

*buterā f

butter
Synonym: *ankwō

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*buterā
Genitive	*buterōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*buterā	*buterōn
Accusative	*buterōn	*buterōn
Genitive	*buterōn	*buterōnō
Dative	*buterōn	buterōm, buterum
Instrumental	*buterōn	buterōm, buterum

Descendants

Old English: butere
- Middle English: butera, buter, butter
  - Scots: butter, buter
  - English: butter
    - → Japanese: バター (batā)
    - → Korean: 빠다 (ppada) (North Korea), 버터 (beoteo) (South Korea)
    - → Sinhalese: බටර් (baṭar)
    - → Zulu: ibhotela
  - Yola: buthther
Old Frisian: butere
- Saterland Frisian: Buutere
- West Frisian: bûter
Old Saxon: *butira, *butera
- Middle Low German: boter, botter
  - German Low German: Botter; (some Low Prussian varieties:) Batter, Potter
  - Dutch Low Saxon: botter, butter, boeter
  - Plautdietsch: Botta
Old Dutch: *butera
- Middle Dutch: botere
  - Dutch: boter
    - Afrikaans: botter
  - Limburgish: bótter
  - West Flemish: beuter, butter
Old High German: butira
- Middle High German: buter
  - Alemannic German: Butter
  - Bavarian: Budda
    - Viennese: Butta
  - German: Butter
    - → Esperanto: butero
      - → Ido: butro
    - → Macedonian: путер (puter)
    - → Serbo-Croatian: pȕter / пу̏тер
    - → Slovene: púter (tonal orthography)
  - Gottscheerish: púttər
  - Hunsrik: Butter
  - Luxembourgish: Botter
  - Palatinate German:
    - Pennsylvania German: Budder
  - East Central German: Putter (Silesian)
  - Yiddish: פּוטער‎ (puter)

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