# abut
## English
### Alternative forms

* abutt

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈbʌt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /əˈbʌt/
* (Northern England) IPA: /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”), from Old French but (“end, aim, purpose”); akin to Old Norse butr (“piece of wood”). Equivalent to a- (“to”) +‎ butt (“boundary mark”).

#### 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.]
    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-19th century.]

##### Usage notes

* Followed by any of the following words: upon, on or (obsolete) to.

##### Derived terms

* abutment
* abuttal
* abutter

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

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

#### 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 16th century.]

##### Usage notes

Followed by any of the following words: upon, on, or against.

### References

* 1 2 3 4 5 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
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 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.
* 1 2 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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈabut/ [ˈäː.but]
* Hyphenation: a‧but

### Verb

ábut
* to reach
    E ku pa ayabutanI 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, 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: /əˈbʊt/
* IPA: /əˈbuːtən/

### Preposition

abut
* about

#### Derived terms

* strabut

### References

* ↑ Diarmaid Ó Muirithe (1990) “A Modern Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy”, in lrish University Review‎, volume 20, number 1, Edinburgh University Press, page 153
* ↑ 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