butin
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French butin.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]butin m (plural butins)
- loot, booty (the proceeds of theft, robbery etc., swag, contraband)
- what is obtained or amassed by laborious collection
- what is collected by insects such as bees or ants; a load of pollen, nectar, etc.
- (Louisiana) furniture
- (Louisiana) belongings, household possessions
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “butin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities (2009; →ISBN; →ISBN)
Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain; possibly from Vulgar Latin *boudinus, from Gaulish *boudi, from Proto-Celtic *boudi (“profit, gains; victory”), or perhaps from Vulgar Latin *būtīnus, from Old Dutch *būti, possibly also from Gaulish.
Noun
[edit]butin oblique singular, m (oblique plural butins, nominative singular butins, nominative plural butin)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (butin, supplement)
- Rolleston, T.W. (2018): Celtic Mythology
Venetan
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]butin m (plural butini)
Categories:
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- Louisiana French
- Old French terms with unknown etymologies
- Old French terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Old French terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Old French terms derived from Gaulish
- Old French terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Old French terms derived from Old Dutch
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French masculine nouns
- Venetan lemmas
- Venetan nouns
- Venetan masculine nouns