The Greek word βούτυρον
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| Meaning | butter |
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Greek: βοῦς
‘cow, bull’ Proto-Indo-European: *gʷōus ‘cow, bull’ Greek: τυρός ‘cheese’ Proto-Indo-European: teuh- ‘to swell, to grow fat’ |
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Litteraly 'cow-cheese' from PIE *gʷous 'cow' + *teuh- 'to swell, to become fat'. Lat. būtȳrum is borrowed from the Greek, and from the Latin in turn OHG butera, MoDu. boter. |
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Other words that might be of interest |
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| γράω ‘eat, gnaw’, οίνος ‘wine’, εμπότης ‘water jar, urn’, φαγ- ‘to eat, food’, μύλη ‘mill, hand-mill, nether millstone’, τροφή ‘nourishment, food’, καρπός ‘fruit, grain, product, harvest, outcome’, εἰλικρινής ‘unmixed, pure, sincere’, κυλίχνη ‘cup’, μυζάω ‘to suck’, πυρίτης ‘bread, kind of bread’ | |