botn

From Old Norse botn, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz.

• IPA^(key): /pɔhtn/

botn m (genitive singular botns, nominative plural botnar)

1. bottom (lowest part of something)
2. the innermost part of a landform such as a valley or fjord
3. the latter half of a verse
4. buttocks

• “botn” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

From Old Norse botn, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz. Doublet of bunn.

botn m (definite singular botnen, indefinite plural botner, definite plural botnene)

1. a cirque (depression in a mountainside formed by glacial erosion)
2. bottom

• bunn (bottom)

• havbotn

• “botn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse botn, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz. Akin to English bottom.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔtn̩/

botn m (definite singular botnen, indefinite plural botnar, definite plural botnane)

1. bottom
2. a cirque (depression in a mountainside formed by glacial erosion)
3. the innermost part of a landform such as a valley or fjord

• havbotn

• “botn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *butmaz.

botn m (genitive singular botns or boz, nominative plural botnar)

1. bottom

• Icelandic: botn
• Faroese: botnur
• Norwegian Nynorsk: botn
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: botn
• Norwegian Bokmål: bånn
• Elfdalian: buottn
• Old Swedish: butn, botn
  • Swedish: botten
• Old Danish: botn, bon
  • Danish: bund
    • Norwegian Bokmål: bunn
  • Scanian: bónð
• Gutnish: buttn

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “botn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive