Büel

See also: Buel

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Middle High German bühel, from Old High German buhil, further etymology unknown; perhaps related to Proto-West Germanic *beugan (“to bend”).[1] Cognate with German Bühel.

Noun

Büel m

(Uri) hill

References

Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 20.

Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Bühel”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

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