Old English · adverb
onbutan
- Part of speech
- adverb
- IPA
- /onˈbuː.tɑn/
- Syllables
- on · ˈbuː · tɑn (3 syllables)
- Modern English
- aboutabootonapproximately
onbutan1 · adverb
Senses
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about, round about, all around
-
about, approximately
onbutan2 · preposition
Senses
-
on, about, round about, on the outside
c. 994, Ælfric, https://books.google.co.id/books?id=iqCU4ZV4pjoC&pg=PA8De Anno (On the Year)]
Now, you might understand that the person who goes around a single house has a smaller circuit than the one who goes around the whole city.
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *andabiūtan, equivalent to on- + būtan. Cognate with Old Frisian abūta, Middle Low German enbûten, Middle High German enbūzen.
Descendants
aboot, about
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