Milbutas

Composite surn. from Mi̇̀l̃-fLatv. For mil- cf. lit. surn. Mél-geda < *Mil-geda, Mil-gaũdas, Mil-gaũdis, Mil̃-kintas, Mil-kiñtis, Mi̇̀l-kontas, Mil̃-kuntas, Mil̃-mantas, Mil-mant-ãvičius, Mi̇̀l̃-montas, Mil-mont-ãvičius, Mil̃-vidas, Mi̇̀l̃-vydas (see), lit. pers.n. Mi̇̀l-gintas ¹; Ave. Mile-gaude, Mile-gede, Mila-gids, Mylli-geyde, Myle-munt, Mili-kante ². Anthropolexema mil- occurs much less often in the second corpus of compound personal nouns - from the Baltic languages, perhaps only in the Prussian nomenclature: OPr. Monte-myle, Taute-mille (ibid.). The root mil- is related to lit. (pa)mi̇̀lti ³. For but- see Bùtauts.