Word Origin Summary

Bata prut is attested in Tok Pisin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. butereEnglishinherited from
2. βούτῡρονAncient Greekderived from
3. βούτυρονAncient Greekderived from
4. buterMiddle Englishinherited from
5. *buterāProto-West Germanicinherited from
6. būtȳrumLatinderived from
7. butterEnglishderived from

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