abut

English

Alternative forms

abutt

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈbʌt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /əˈbʌt/
(Northern England) IPA^(key): /əˈbʊt/
Rhymes: -ʌt

Etymology 1

From Middle English abutten, from Medieval Latin abuttare and Old French abuter, aboter, abouter (“to touch at one end, to come to an end, aim, reach”),^[1]^[2] from Old French but (“end, aim, purpose”); akin to Old Norse butr (“piece of wood”).^[1] Equivalent to a- (“to”) +‎ butt (“boundary mark”).^[3]

Verb

abut (third-person singular simple present abuts, present participle abutting, simple past and past participle abutted)

(intransitive) To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land) [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]^[3]
It was a time when Germany still abutted upon Russia.

His land abuts on the road.
(transitive) To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to. [First attested in the mid-19^th century.]^[3]

Usage notes

Followed by any of the following words: upon, on or (obsolete) to.^[1]^[3]

Derived terms

Translations

to touch by means of a mutual border

Czech: sousedit (cs) impf, hraničit (cs) impf, přiléhat impf
Galician: testar (gl), estremar (gl)
German: angrenzen (de)
Hungarian: érintkezik (hu), összeér (hu)
Spanish: lindar (es), colindar (es), limitar (es)

to border on

Bulgarian: гранича (bg) (graniča), опирам се о (opiram se o)
Dutch: grenzen (nl)
Finnish: rajoittua (fi)
French: aboutir (fr), abouter (fr)
Galician: testar (gl), estremar (gl)
German: angrenzen (de), berühren (de)
Greek: εδράζομαι (el) (edrázomai)
Hungarian: érint (hu), határos (hu), szomszédos (hu)
Macedonian: грани́чи impf (graníči)
Maori: kāpīpiti, aki, karipapa
Romanian: învecina (ro)
Russian: грани́чить (ru) impf (graníčitʹ), примыка́ть (ru) impf (primykátʹ), прилега́ть (ru) impf (prilegátʹ), упира́ться (ru) impf (upirátʹsja)
Spanish: bordear (es)
Swedish: gränsa till

Etymology 2

From Middle English abutten,^[4] from Old French aboter (“to touch at one end, border on”),^[1] abouter (“to join end to end”), abuter (“to buttress, to put an end to”), from a- (“towards”) + bout (“end”), boter, bouter (“to strike”),^[5] buter (“to strike, finish”).^[4] Equivalent to a- (“towards, change to”) +‎ butt (“push”)^[3]

Verb

abut (third-person singular simple present abuts, present participle abutting, simple past and past participle abutted)

(intransitive) To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall. [First attested in the late 16^th century.]^[3]

Usage notes

Followed by any of the following words: upon, on, or against.^[1]^[3]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 8
^ Laurence Urdang (editor), The Random House College Dictionary (Random House, 1984 [1975], →ISBN), page 7
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 ^3.4 ^3.5 ^3.6 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abut”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 11.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 William Morris, editor (1969 (1971 printing)), “abut”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, New York, N.Y.: American Heritage Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 6.
^ Christine A. Lindberg, editor (2002), “abut”, in The Oxford College Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Spark Publishing, →ISBN, page 5.

Anagrams

buat, Ṭūbā, tabu, Taub, buta, tuba, Tuba, batu, Batu

Ayu

Noun

abút

cloud

References

Blench, Roger. "The Ayu language of Central Nigeria and its affinities" (2011), page 6

Balinese

Romanization

abut

Romanization of ᬳᬩᬸᬢ᭄

Hiligaynon

Verb

abút (frequentative abút-abút)

to arrive at a place

Verb

abut (frequentative abút-ábut)

to catch up with or overtake

Kapampangan

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *qábut.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈabut/ [ˈäː.but]
Hyphenation: a‧but

Verb

ábut

to reach
E ku pa ayabutan
I can’t grasp the meaning yet.

References

^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qábut”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Michael L. Forman (2019) Kapampangan Dictionary‎^[1], University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 29 June 2021, page 2

Kiput

Etymology

From Proto-North Sarawak *rabut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *rabut.

Verb

abut

to pluck

Limos Kalinga

Noun

abút

hole

Scots

Conjunction

abut

Alternative form of abit

References

“abut, conj. phr.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Tetum

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀabut, compare Hiligaynon gabut.

Noun

abut

root

Yola

Alternative forms

abuth, abouten

Etymology

From Middle English abute, abouten, from Old English abūtan.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /əˈbʊt/, /əˈbuːtən/

Preposition

abut

about

References

Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 22

[WI3-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 8

[RHD-2] Laurence Urdang (editor), The Random House College Dictionary (Random House, 1984 [1975], →ISBN), page 7

[SOED-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 ^3.4 ^3.5 ^3.6 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abut”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 11.

[AHD-4] 4.0 ^4.1 William Morris, editor (1969 (1971 printing)), “abut”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, New York, N.Y.: American Heritage Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 6.

[OCD-5] Christine A. Lindberg, editor (2002), “abut”, in The Oxford College Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Spark Publishing, →ISBN, page 5.

[6] Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qábut”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

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