Where does “Butter” come from?
Butter (Hunsrik) comes from Middle High German buter, from Old High German butira, from Proto-West Germanic buterā, from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτυρον, from Ancient Greek τυρός, from Proto-Hellenic tūrós, from Proto-Indo-European tuh₂-ró-s — to swell; to crowd; to be strong.
Butter (Hunsrik): butter
Ancestry of “Butter”, step by step