Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *butmazScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_butmaz
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Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013πῠθμήνbottom of a cup or jar; the bottom of the sea; trunk, butt of a treefundusbottom; farm; ground; foundationबुध्नbottom, ground, base, depth, lowest part of anything
nounmasculinea-stembottom; foundationgroundabyssFrom pre-Germanic *bʰudʰ-m̥-ó-s from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰ-mḗn ~ *bʰudʰ-m̥n-és/*bʰudʰ-n-és(‘bottom’). According to Kroonen 2013, the -m- had been dissimilated in the genitive already in Proto-Indo-European, giving Sanskrit बुध्न (budhna, ‘bottom, ground, base, depth, lowest part of anything’) and Latin fundus (‘bottom; farm; ground; foundation’), resulting in a Proto-Germanic paradigm of *budm-, *butt-, (the -tt- via Kluge’s Law), which then gave rise to other variants in: *budm-, *butm-. He also suggests that the root was metathesized from *dʰewbʰ-/*dʰubʰ- (‘hazy, unclear, dark; deep’). Other cognates are Ancient Greek πῠθμήν (pŭthmḗn, ‘bottom of a cup or jar; the bottom of the sea; trunk, butt of a tree’), Old Armenian անդունդ (andund, ‘abyss, hell’), and Latin fundus (‘bottom; farm; ground; foundation’). Related to *buttaz (‘end, piece’).