buter – Middle English noun declension

Noun: buter

Sg.

buter

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

þa ƿaſ coꝛn dære: ⁊ flec ⁊ cæſe ⁊ butere. foꝛ nan ƿæſ o þe land. Ƿreccemen ſturuen of hungær. (Grain was precious then, and meat, cheese, and butter, because there wasn't any in the country. Wretched men died from hunger.) [p. 1154, “AD 1137”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 89, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 8 February 2018:]

Nouns inflected like buter

syment, cristened, savete, savyne, sandal, whelere, scuage, scluse, sclise, sclave, schyft, schuit, schite, schort, schold, schern, smothe, smethe, smerte, slutte, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Old English butere, from Proto-West Germanic *buterā, from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron). See: Old English Nouns 'butere', Latin Nouns 'būtȳrum'.

Verbs referencing "buter"

English Nouns butter.