Butter – German noun declension

Noun: Butter
Gender: Masculine, Feminine
Hyphenation:

Nominative

Genitive

Dative

Accusative

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like Butter

A-Dur, Kimchi, Gaudi, Kölsch, Hightech, H-dur, Dschihad, Platt, Corned Beef, As-Dur, Unbill, Früh, Syph, Katzenstreu, Biltong, Hagelslag, Genüge, Nutella, H-Dur, Furore, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws
3. Proto-Hellenic *gʷous
4. Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs)
5. Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂-
6. Proto-Indo-European *-rós
7. Proto-Indo-European *tuh₂rós
8. Proto-Hellenic *tūrós
9. Ancient Greek τυρός (turós)
10. Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron)bor.
11. Latin būtȳrumbor.
12. Proto-West Germanic *buterā
13. Old High German butira
14. Middle High German buter
15. German Butter
16. From Middle High German buter, butter, from Old High German butera, from Proto-West Germanic *buterā (“butter”).
17. Though originally feminine, the word became masculine throughout Upper German and in southern dialects of West Central German. The now established feminine gender is East Central German, reinforced by Middle Low German boter f.

Verbs referencing "Butter"

English Nouns butter, Dutch Nouns boter.

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