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Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch buit, from Middle Low German büte.
Pronunciation
Noun
buit (uncountable)
- The booty, spoils.
Derived terms
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Old Catalan buit, from Late Latin vocitus (compare Occitan voide~void~vued, Old French vuit (modern vide), Italian vuoto), itself related to vocuus, from Latin vacuus, or perhaps a participle of a Vulgar Latin verb *vŏcāre, *vŏcĕre as a variant of Latin vacō, vacāre (“be empty”) (or alternatively a variant of vacĭtus as a participle of a *vacĕre).
Pronunciation
Adjective
buit (feminine buida, masculine plural buits, feminine plural buides)
- vacant
- empty
Antonyms
Derived terms
Noun
buit m (plural buits)
- empty space; gap
- vacuum
- void
References
Further reading
Dutch
Alternative forms
Etymology
16th century, borrowed from Middle Low German büte, whence also German Beute and eventually all other related forms. Of uncertain ultimate origin; possibly a Celtic borrowing, from Proto-Celtic *boudi (“victory, booty, spoils”). If so, related to the name of Boudica, a British Celtic queen.
Pronunciation
Noun
buit m (uncountable)
- The spoil, booty taken by violence, as in war.
- The loot, fruits of crime.
- A hunter's prey.
- The gains, as in a game of chance.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
- ^ Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (buit, supplement)
- ^ Rolleston, T.W. (2018): Celtic Mythology