Butt

butt but bút bût būt but- English Alternative forms en Butte Etymology As an English surname, from en enm butte target, goal, from en fr but target, aim. Also as an English surname, from en butte isolated hill. Also as an English surname, from en butt#Etymology 3 butt (sense 3) cask, bottle. Also as an English surname, from a nickname related to en butt#Etymology 1 butt (sense 1) thick end. As an English and en de - surname, from en butt#Etymology 4 butt (sense 4) type of flounder. As a en ks - surname, spelling variant of en Bhatt. Proper noun s en. en English. en German. en Kashmiri. Further reading German Etymology de nds-de Butt, from de gml but, gml butte, from de osx *butt, from de gem-pro *buttaz stumpy. Cognate with nl bot and with en butt, in all senses. Apparently this word had the primitive meaning of being a en stump, i. e. being flattened by reason of beating, whereby the root might be identified with the one of en beat and de bossen, de bosseln. Pronunciation de /bʊt/ de De-Butt.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Noun m,(e)s de Northern Germany European flounder (Platichthys flesus species) lefteye flounder fish of the family Bothidae family turbot fish of the family Scophthalmidae family Declension m,(e)s Derived terms de Heilbutt de Steinbutt Further reading de Flatfish