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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/būti

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

Uncertain; possibly borrowed from Gaulish *boudi, from Proto-Celtic *boudi (“profit, gains; victory”)[1], or perhaps from *biūtijan, from *bi- (locative prefix) +‎ *ūt (“out, outward”) +‎ *-jan[2].

Noun

*būti m[3]

  1. exchange, barter
  2. allotment
  3. spoils, plunder, booty

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative reconstructions

Derived terms
  • *būtijan (“to exchange, barter; to divide up; to plunder”)
    • Old Dutch: *būten

Descendants

Further reading
  • de Vries, Jan (1971), “buit”, in Nederlands etymologisch woordenboek [Dutch etymological dictionary] (in Dutch), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 94
  • van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “buit”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

References
  1. Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Beute¹”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 81
  2. Sverige in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
  3. Nikolayev, Sergei, editor (2008), “*būt=”, in Common Germanic database (Common Indo-European database), StarLing database server
  4. de Vries, Jan (1977), “býta”, in Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Old Norse Etymological Dictionary] (in German), 2nd revised edition, Leiden: Brill, page 68
  5. van der Sijs, Nicoline (2010), “buit; buiten”, in Nederlandse woorden wereldwijd [Dutch words worldwide] (in Dutch), The Hague: Sdu Uitgevers, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 245-246
  6. Newerkla, Stefan Michael (2011), “bít, bíta”, in Sprachkontakte Deutsch – Tschechisch – Slowakisch: Wörterbuch der deutschen Lehnwörter im Tschechischen und Slowakischen: historische Entwicklung, Beleglage, bisherige und neue Deutungen (Schriften über Sprachen und Texte; 7) (in German), 2nd edition, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 155
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