putt

putt · noun, verb¹

1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*putōną
2. Scots · borrowed fromputt“to put”
3. English todayputt

Borrowed from Scots putt (“to put”). Compare Middle Dutch putten (“to dig a pit”). The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid. In Dutch, the word is instanced in a description of golf in an early seventeenth-century edition of Pieter van Afferden's Tyrocinium linguae latinae. All derive from Proto-Germanic *putōną.

putt · noun, verb²

Onomatopoeic, from putt-putt.

putt · noun³

Probable variant of pot (“vessel”) or butt (“cask”).

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