Beute
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɔʏ̯tə/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: Beu‧te
Etymology 1
From late Middle High German biute, borrowed from Middle Low German büte, whence also the forms in other languages like Dutch buit, English booty, French butin. Of uncertain ultimate origin; possibly a Celtic borrowing, from Proto-Celtic *boudi (“victory, booty, spoils”). If so, related to the name of Boudica, a British Celtic queen.
Noun
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Declension
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Related terms
Etymology 2
From Middle High German biute, from Old High German biuta.
Noun
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- (beekeeping) hive, beehive (artificial structure for housing honeybees, excluding the swarm and its combs)
Declension
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Hypernyms
Derived terms
- Klotzbeute
Further reading
- “Beute” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Beute (Anteil, Opfer)” in Duden online
- “Beute (Bienenstock)” in Duden online
- “Beute” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (Beute, supplement)
- Rolleston, T.W. (2018): Celtic Mythology