début
French
noun
Definitions
- start, beginning
Etymology
Inherited from Old French but (aim, end, goal, target, purpose), butte (mound, target, knoll) derived from Frankish *but (stump, log) derived from Old Norse bútr (stump, log, butt) derived from Proto-Germanic *butą (end, piece) derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewd- (beat, push, hit, strike, hew).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰewd-
Gloss
beat, push, hit, strike, hew
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Cognates and derived terms
- debut English
- début English
- redebut English
- Bituriges Latin
- fustis Latin
- Debüt German
- debutto Italian
- debuut Dutch, Flemish
- debuutalbum Dutch, Flemish
- debuutsingle Dutch, Flemish
- débuter French
- дебют Russian
- debut Spanish, Castilian
- *bʰeud- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰewd- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰÀud- Proto-Indo-European
- *gʷʰen- Proto-Indo-European
- debut Norwegian Bokmål
- *bautaną Proto-Germanic
- *butaz Proto-Germanic
- *butą Proto-Germanic
- debut Swedish
- debutant Swedish
- debutera Swedish
- デビュー Japanese
- Bytom Polish
- debiut Polish
- debut Norwegian Nynorsk
- bútr Old Norse
- debut Danish
- debut Czech
- but Old French
- butte Old French
- debi Serbo-Croatian
- bútur Icelandic
- debu Cebuano
- abuter Middle French
- but Middle French
- *bus-liâ Proto-Celtic
- but Westrobothnian
- *but Frankish
- but Frankish
- belsti Lithuanian