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Icelandic
Etymology 1
From Old Norse bót, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō (“recompense”).
Cognates include Old Swedish bōt (“improvement”) whence Swedish bot (“fine”). Compare also Bót- in the names Bótey, Bóthildur and Bótólfur, Swedish Boel and Bodil and Danish Bodil. Related to Proto-Germanic *batiz (“good; better”), itself ultimately going back to Proto-Indo-European *bʰed- (“improve, make better”) (sometimes reconstructed as **bʰ(e)Hd-).
Pronunciation
Noun
bót f (genitive singular bótar, nominative plural bætur)
- betterment, improvement, cure
- patch
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Etymology 2
From Proto-Germanic *buhtiz. A doublet of the loanword bugt.
Noun
bót f (genitive singular bótar, nominative plural bætur)
- bight, cove, inlet, a small bay
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Kashubian
Noun
bót m inan
- boot
- shoe
Further reading
- “bót”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
- Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “but”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From French brosse.
Noun
bót
- (dated) brush (used for cleanup)
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Etymology 2
Noun
bót
- (dated) police station
2016, Trầm Hương, Trong cơn lốc xoáy, part I, NXB Phụ nữ, page 367:Rất nhanh chóng, cò Bazin quay trở lại bót Catinat, với tâm thế sục sôi rửa hận.- Very quickly, superintendent Bazin returned to the Catinat police station, his heart boiling over with vengeance.