Bütte

German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle High German büte, from earlier büten, from Old High German butin, from Proto-West Germanic *budinu, from Vulgar Latin *budina, from Medieval Latin butina, which is perhaps related to buttis (“barrel, cask”).[1][2][3]

Cognate with Luxembourgish Bidden, Yiddish ביט‎ (bit), and further Old Saxon budin, Old English byden.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbʏtə/
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  • Hyphenation: Büt‧te

Noun

Bütte f (genitive Bütte, plural Bütten)

  1. (regional, chiefly western Germany) tub, vat, barrel (open vessel, often large and made of wood)
    Synonyms: Bottich, Fass, Kübel, Tonne, Wanne
  2. (regional, Rhineland, usually in the form Bütt) a lectern for a comedic speaker in a carnival event, originally and still usually in the form of a wooden barrel
  3. (not regional) a wide vessel used in papermaking

Usage notes
  • Outside the two specialist senses, speakers now often use the similar sounding (though not closely related) word Bottich as a standard German equivalent for Bütte.

Declension
Declension of Bütte [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Bütte die Bütten
genitive einer der Bütte der Bütten
dative einer der Bütte den Bütten
accusative eine die Bütte die Bütten

Derived terms

References
  1. Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Butte”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
  2. Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
  3. “Bütte” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Further reading
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