FromDutchbuit, fromMiddle Low Germanbüte.
buit (uncountable)
- Thebooty,spoils.
Inherited fromVulgar Latin*vocitum.
buit (femininebuida,masculine pluralbuits,feminine pluralbuides)
- vacant
- empty
buit m (pluralbuits)
- empty space;gap
- vacuum
- void
16th century, borrowed fromMiddle Low Germanbüte, whence alsoGermanBeute and eventually all other related forms. Of uncertain ultimate origin; possibly aCeltic borrowing, fromProto-Celtic*boudi(“victory, booty, spoils”).[1] If so, related to the name ofBoudica, a British Celtic queen.[2][3]
buit m (uncountable)
- thespoil,booty taken by violence, as in war
- theloot, fruits of crime
- a hunter'sprey
- thegains, as in a game of chance
- ^Philippa, Marlies,Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke,van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009)Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
- ^Godefroy, Frédéric,Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes duIXe auXVe siècle (1881) (buit, supplement)
- ^Rolleston, T.W. (2018): Celtic Mythology
