buit

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Afrikaans[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Dutch buit, from Middle Low German büte.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /bœi̯t/
  • Audio(file)

Noun[edit]

buit (uncountable)

  1. The booty, spoils.

Derived terms[edit]

Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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”)[1] (or alternatively a variant of vacĭtus as a participle of a *vacĕre).

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

buit (feminine buida, masculine plural buits, feminine plural buides)

  1. vacant
  2. empty

Antonyms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Noun[edit]

buit m (plural buits)

  1. empty space; gap
  2. vacuum
  3. void

References[edit]

  1. ^ “buit”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

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Dutch[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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”).[1] If so, related to the name of Boudica, a British Celtic queen.[2] [3]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

buit m (uncountable)

  1. The spoil, booty taken by violence, as in war.
  2. The loot, fruits of crime.
  3. A hunter's prey.
  4. The gains, as in a game of chance.

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Afrikaans: buit
  • → West Frisian: bût, bút

References[edit]

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (buit, supplement)
  3. ^ Rolleston, T.W. (2018): Celtic Mythology
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