abut

• abutt

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈbʌt/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈbʌt/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /əˈbʊt/}
• Rhymes: -ʌt

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]

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

1. (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.

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

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

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]

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

1. (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]

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

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

abút

1. cloud

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

abut

1. Romanization of ᬳᬩᬸᬢ᭄

abút (frequentative abút-abút)

1. to arrive at a place

abut (frequentative abút-ábut)

1. to catch up with or overtake

From Proto-Philippine *qábut.^[1]

ábut

1. to reach

   E ku pa ayabutan

   I can’t grasp the meaning yet.

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

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

abut

1. to pluck

abút

1. hole

abut

1. Alternative form of abit

• “abut, conj. phr.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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

abut

1. root

• abuth, abouten

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

• IPA^(key): /əˈbuːt/, /əbuːˈtiːn/

abut

1. about

• 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