An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Büttel

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Bütte

An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, B
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis

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This annotated version expands the abbreviations in the original entry Büttel.

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2582339An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, B — BüttelJohn Francis DavisFriedrich Kluge

Büttel, masculine, ‘beadle, jailer,’ from Middle High German bütel, Old High German butil, masculine, ‘a messenger of the law’; compare Anglo-Saxon bydel, ‘messenger,’ English beadle (which is based both on the Anglo-Saxon bydel and on a Middle English word of Romance origin — Middle Latin bedellus, Modern French bedeau, ‘beadle’); allied to bieten.