Botter

Derived from botter (“type of fishing vessel”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.tər/

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• Hyphenation: Bot‧ter
• Rhymes: -ɔtər
• Homophone: botter

Botter n

1. A neighbourhood of Lelystad, Flevoland, Netherlands

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Botter

Wikipedia ^nds

• Bodder (Mecklenburgisch)
• Buoter, Buotter
• Bueter (Märkisch)

From Middle Low German botter, boter, from Old Saxon *butera, from Proto-West Germanic *buterā, from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron, literally “cow cheese”). Cognate with German Butter, Dutch boter, English butter, West Frisian bûter.

Botter f (no plural)

1. (Münsterland, Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch, Low Prussian) butter
   • 1991, Ulrich Tolksdorf, Ermländische Protokolle: Alltagserzählungen in Mundart: Gloms on Dwarg wurd ook jemoakt, page 212:

     on denn sull doa Botter ware

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Botterbrod (Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch)
• Botterbrot (Dithmarsisch, Altmärkisch, Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch)

• bótter, botter (Veldeke spelling)
• Bote̩r, Bǫte̩r (Rheinische Dokumenta spelling)

From Middle Dutch boter, from Old Dutch *butera, from Proto-West Germanic *buterā, from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron, literally “cow cheese”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbo.təʁ/,
• (Selfkant) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.təʁ/
• Rhymes: -otəʁ, -ɔtəʁ

Botter f (plural Bottere) (German-based spelling, Eupen spelling)

1. butter

From Middle High German buter, from Old High German butira, from Proto-West Germanic *buterā, from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron, literally “cow cheese”). Cognate with German Butter, Dutch boter, English butter, West Frisian bûter.

• IPA^(key): /ˈboteʀ/,

Botter m (uncountable)

1. butter