Butt

• Butte

• As an English surname, from Middle English butte (“target, goal”), from French but (“target, aim”).
• Also as an English surname, from butte (“isolated hill”).
• Also as an English surname, from butt (sense 3) (“cask, bottle”).
• Also as an English surname, from a nickname related to butt (sense 1) (“thick end”).
• As an English and German surname, from butt (sense 4) (“type of flounder”).
• As a Kashmiri surname, spelling variant of Bhatt.

Butt (plural Butts)

1. A surname.
   1. A surname from English.
   2. A surname from German.
   3. A surname from Kashmiri.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Butt”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 262.

Borrowed from German Low German Butt, from Middle Low German but, butte, from Old Saxon *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“stumpy”). Cognate with Dutch bot and with English butt, in all senses.

Apparently this word had the primitive meaning of being a stump, i. e. being flattened by reason of beating, whereby the root might be identified with the one of English beat and German bossen, bosseln.

• IPA^(key): /bʊt/

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Butt m (strong, genitive Buttes or Butts, plural Butte)

1. (Northern Germany) European flounder (Platichthys flesus)
2. lefteye flounder (fish of the family Bothidae)
3. turbot (fish of the family Scophthalmidae)

• Heilbutt
• Steinbutt

• “Butt” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Butt” in Duden online