• Original language: French
  • Original form and meaning: bouton 'fastener, bud'


(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


Language Form Date of Borrowing (and Obsolescence) Current Meaning and Status Earlier Meanings and Statusses Source
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English button 14th c. 1. 'a knob or stud of metal or other material sewn by a shank or neck to articles of dress, usually for the purpose of fastening one part of the dress to another by passing through a button-hole', 2. 'as a type of anything of very small value', 3. 'applied to various productions of art resembling a button in shape or function, a knob, handle, catch, the knob or disc of an electric bell', 4. 'any small rounded body, a knob, globule' '...' OED
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German Budan ... 'earring, fastener for clothes, little woman' (dial.) '...' Birken-Silvermann 2003: 138
Hungarian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Irish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Italian bottone ... 'knob, fastener' '...' Birken-Silvermann 2003: 138
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Rumantsch ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovak ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovenian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Spanish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Swedish ... ... '...' '...' ...

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