Button

Morpheme

Button

Type

free base

Denotation

knob or disc pushed through a hole as a fastener, bud, push, thrust

Etymology

Middle English butonen, botonen, boton, botoun; Old French boton, from bouter, boter

Evidence

bebuttoned, button, buttonable, buttonbush, buttoned, buttoner, buttonfront, buttonhole, buttonhook, buttoning, buttonize, buttonless, buttonlike, buttonmaker, buttonology, buttonquail, buttons, buttony, disbutton, fussbutton, misbutton, multibuttoned, prebutton, rebutton, unbutton, unbuttoned

Notes

<n> does not double because the stress falls on the first syllable