Etymology

butte

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Today it means: An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top. Full definition →

French butte ← West Germanic
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butte · noun1

  1. West Germanic · derived from
  2. French · borrowed frombutte“mound”
  3. English todaybutte

PIE word *bʰudʰmḗn Borrowed from French butte (“mound”). Related to butt via a West Germanic cognate.

Butte · proper noun2

Perhaps a variant spelling of Butt.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.