myEtymology.com: English etymology of butterweed

Etymology of the English word butterweed

the English word butterweed

derived from the English word butter

derived from the Old French word bouter

using the Proto-Indo-European prefix bhau- (to hit)

derived from the Frankish root *bōtan

derived from the Latin word butyrum

derived from the Greek word bouturon, βούτυρον

derived from the Greek word bous, βοῦς (an ox (as grazing); an animal of that species ('beef'))

derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷou-

derived from the English word weed