Food & drink
butter
Source:*masloProto-Slavic · “ointment, fat; from *mazati 'to smear'”certain
Butter is literally 'the smear': *maslo is *maz- 'smear' plus the suffix -slo.
English
butter
Polish
masło
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- Russianма́слоmasloˈmasləinherited
Also 'oil'; butter specifically is сли́вочное ма́сло.
- Ukrainianма́слоmasloˈmaslɔinherited
Oil is a different word, олі́я.
- Polishmasłoˈmaswɔinherited
- Czechmásloˈmaːsloinherited
- Bosnian-Croatian-Serbianmaslacмаслацˈmaslatsinherited
A diminutive of the same word; colloquial Serbian also says puter, from German.
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