pond

From Middle English pond, ponde (“pond, pool”), probably from Old English *pond, *pand (attested in placenames), a variant of *pund (“enclosure”). Doublet of pound.

An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.

An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river.

I wonder how they do this on the other side of the pond.

I haven’t been back home across the pond in twenty years.

(informal) Chiefly in across the pond: the Atlantic Ocean.


pond

en-verb

pond (third-person singular simple present ponds, present participle ponding, simple past and past participle ponded)

ponds (present singular third-person)
ponding (participle present)
ponded (participle past)
ponded (past)

The rate of fall of the surface of water ponded over the soil within the ring gives a measure of the infiltration rate for the particular enclosed area.

2004, Calvin W. Rose, An Introduction to the Environmental Physics of Soil, Water and Watersheds, page 201

(transitive) To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.

(transitive) To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.


scarp

scarp (third-person singular simple present scarps, present participle scarping, simple past and past participle scarped)

scarps (present singular third-person)
scarping (participle present)
scarped (participle past)
scarped (past)

Aphetic form of escarp. Doublet of sharp.

to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock

(earth science, geography, transitive) to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment


deal

dealuri (plural)
deal (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
un deal (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
dealul (accusative definite nominative singular)
dealuri (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
niște dealuri (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
dealurile (accusative definite nominative plural)
deal (dative genitive indefinite singular)
unui deal (dative genitive indefinite singular)
dealului (dative definite genitive singular)
dealuri (dative genitive indefinite plural)
unor dealuri (dative genitive indefinite plural)
dealurilor (dative definite genitive plural)
dealule (singular vocative)
dealurilor (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic дѣлъ (dělŭ), from Proto-Slavic *dělъ.


Gambia

Gambia (canonical)
the Gambia (canonical)


Gambia

/ɡá.ŋ́.bí.à/


y

tpw-noun

y (IIb class pluriform, absolute ty, R1 ry, R2 ty) (possessable)

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tɨ (“liquid, urine”), from Proto-Tupian *tˀɨ (“liquid, urine”). Doublet of ty.
Cognate with Sateré-Mawé hɨ (“river”), Guaraní ty (“urine”).


Uruguay

Disputed, either:
* Guaraní urugua y (literally “water shellfish”), from urugua (“shellfish”) + y (“water”); or
* Guaraní uru gua y (literally “type of water bird”) from uru (“type of bird”) + gua (“from”) + y (“water”).

com

Uruguay River (a major river in South America)


Mozambique

Borrowed from Portuguese Moçambique, from the name of sultan Mussa Bin Bique.

During our cruise in the Mozambique we had generally light winds, almost invariably from E.S.E., or calms, and smooth water, nearly the whole time.

1857 May, “Extracts from the Journal of Captain M. S. Nolloth, H.M.S. 'Frolic'”, in The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, for 1857, London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., page 252

A broad strait, the modern Mozambique Channel, which separates the island of Madagascar from the African mainland of Mozambique.


Paraguay

Disputed; from Guaraní Payagua (“Pajagua tribe”) y (“water”) or para (“river”) guái (“crown”) or para (“river”) gua (“from”) y (“water”).

The Paraguay River, a river in South America that flows into the Paraná, through Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia and Argentina.


Paraguay

Borrowed from Guaraní Paraguay, formed either from para (“sea”) + gúa (“bordering”) or from paraguã (“crown of feathers”) + y (“river”).

Paraguay River (a major river in South America)


Niger

/niːˈʒɛə(ɹ)/

Commonly linked by folk etymology to Latin niger (“black”), which likely influenced the modern spelling.
Some sources give the term to Tuareg roots, deriving it from a claimed gher n-gheren or egereou n-igereouen (“river of rivers”). Compare Tarifit iɣzar-n-iɣezran.
Older sources derive Niger, via a series of mistranslations and geographic misplacements by Greek, Roman and Arab geographers, from Ptolemy's descriptions of the wadi Gir (in modern Algeria) and the "Lower Gir" (or "Ni-Gir") to the south.

From here we can see the River Niger in the distance running across town, a long gleaming diamond in the horizon.

2023, Stephen Buoro, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury Circus, page 290

A major river in West Africa that flows into the Gulf of Guinea in Nigeria.


Niger

cs-proper noun

Niger m inan (related adjective nigerský, demonym Nigeřan)

nigerský (adjective)
Nigeřan (demonym)
Niger (nominative singular)
Nigeru (genitive singular)
Nigeru (dative singular)
Niger (accusative singular)
Nigere (singular vocative)
Nigeru (locative singular)
Nigerem (instrumental singular)

Niger (a country in West Africa, situated to the north of Nigeria)

Niger (a major river in West Africa, that flows into the Gulf of Guinea in Nigeria)


Niger

de-proper noun

der Niger m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Niger or des Nigers)

der Niger (canonical masculine)
des Niger (definite genitive)
des Nigers (definite genitive)


Niger

Niger (nominative singular)
Nigert (accusative singular)
Nigernek (dative singular)
Nigerrel (instrumental singular)
Nigerért (causal-final singular)
Nigerré (singular translative)
Nigerig (singular terminative)
Nigerként (essive-formal singular)
Nigerben (inessive singular)
Nigeren (singular superessive)
Nigernél (adessive singular)
Nigerbe (illative singular)
Nigerre (singular sublative)
Nigerhez (allative singular)
Nigerből (elative singular)
Nigerről (delative singular)
Nigertől (ablative singular)
Nigeré (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
Nigeréi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
Nigerem (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
Nigered (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
Nigere (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
Nigerje (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
Nigerünk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
Nigeretek (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
Nigerük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
Nigerjük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)


Niger

la-proper noun

Niger m sg (genitive Nigris); third declension

Nigris (genitive)
Niger (nominative singular)
Nigris (genitive singular)
Nigrī (dative singular)
Nigrim (accusative singular)
Nigre (ablative singular)
Niger (singular vocative)

Efficit autem hoc suo flexu, ut etiam ultra Athlantem Africa ad usque Nigrim fluuium excurrat, Plinio & Ptolemaeo.

1534, Joachim Vadianus, Epitome trium terrae partium Asiae, Africae et Europae compendiariam...

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Niger

Niger (nominative singular)
Nigru (genitive singular)
Nigrowi (dative singular)
Niger (accusative singular)
Nigrem (instrumental singular)
Nigrze (locative singular)
Nigrze (singular vocative)


Niger

Nȉger (canonical masculine)
Ни̏гер (Cyrillic)
Niger (nominative singular)
Nigera (genitive singular)
Nigeru (dative singular)
Niger (accusative singular)
Nigere (singular vocative)
Nigeru (locative singular)
Nigerom (instrumental singular)


Senegal

/ˌsɛn.ɪ.ˈɡɔːl/

/ˌsɛn.ɪ.ˈɡɑːl/

Probably from a Portuguese transliteration of the name of the Zenaga (possibly from Arabic زنجي (“Zanj, Negro”), from Persian زَنگ (“Land of the Blacks”) Etymology 3}. Or a combination of the supreme deity in Serer religion (Rog Sene) and o gal meaning body of water in the Serer language.

A river on the border between Senegal and Mauritania in West Africa.


Senegal

de-proper noun

der Senegal m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Senegals)

der Senegal (canonical masculine)
des Senegals (definite genitive)

Senegal (a river on the border between Senegal and Mauritania in West Africa)


Senegal

Senegal (nominative singular)
Senegalu (genitive singular)
Senegalowi (dative singular)
Senegal (accusative singular)
Senegalem (instrumental singular)
Senegalu (locative singular)
Senegalu (singular vocative)


Senegal

Sȅnegāl (canonical masculine)
Се̏нега̄л (Cyrillic)
Senegal (nominative singular)
Senegala (genitive singular)
Senegalu (dative singular)
Senegal (accusative singular)
Senegale (singular vocative)
Senegalu (locative singular)
Senegalom (instrumental singular)


Chad

→ Welsh: Tsiad

Believed to be from Kanuri tsade (“lake”). The country is named after the lake.

Lake Chad (a freshwater lake at the junction of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon in Central Africa).


Chad

From English Chad, believed to be from Kanuri tsade ("lake", after Lake Chad).

Chad (a freshwater lake at the junction of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon in Central Africa)


port

→ Hindi: पोर्ट (porṭ)

→ Russian: порт (port)

desc

→ Thai: พอร์ต (pɔ̂ɔt)

→ Thai: พอร์ต (pɔ̂ɔt)

From Old English port, borrowed from Latin portus (“port, harbour”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”) (and thus a distant doublet of ford). The directional sense, attested since at least the 1500s, derives from ancient vessels with the steering oar on the right (see etymology of starboard), which therefore had to moor with their left sides facing the dock or wharf.

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

ба́кборд

left-hand side of a vessel when facing the front

any port in a storm
any port in a storm#English

establishment of the port
establishment of the port#English

first port of call
first port of call#English

girl in every port
girl in every port#English

port of registry
port of registry#English

airport
any port in a storm
carport
container port
dry port
establishment of the port
first port of call
free port
girl in every port
half-port
heliport
helm-port
helm port
home port
megaport
outport
port authority
port knocking
portlet
port of call
port of entry
port of registry
raft port
river port
seaport
secondary port
spaceport
standard port
static port
treaty port


port

Inherited from Old Catalan port, from Latin portus, from Proto-Italic *portus, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”), from *per- (“to go forth, to cross”).


port

→ Romanian: port

Inherited from Old French port, borrowed from Latin portus, from Proto-Italic *portus, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”), from *per- (“to go forth, to cross”).


port

head

port m (genitive singular poirt, nominative plural poirt)

poirt (genitive singular)
poirt (nominative plural)
port (indefinite nominative singular)
poirt (indefinite nominative plural)
a phoirt (indefinite singular vocative)
a phorta (indefinite plural vocative)
poirt (genitive indefinite singular)
port (genitive indefinite plural)
port (dative indefinite singular)
poirt (dative indefinite plural)
an port (definite nominative singular)
na poirt (definite nominative plural)
an phoirt (definite genitive singular)
na bport (definite genitive plural)
leis an bport (dative definite singular)
don phort (dative definite singular)
leis na poirt (dative definite plural)
port (mutation mutation-radical)
phort (lenition mutation)
bport (eclipsis mutation)

From Old Irish port (“bank, shore”), borrowed from Latin portus (“harbour”).


port

port m (genitive singular puirt, plural puirt or portan)

puirt (genitive singular)
puirt (plural)
portan (plural)


Congo

After Kongo, from Kongo nkongo (“hunter”). Compare Kongo dikongo (“spear”), Zulu umkhonto, Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀kóndó.

A large river in Africa which flows for about 4,380 km (2,720 miles) to the Atlantic Ocean in the Democratic Republic of Congo.


Congo

Republic of the Congo
Republic of the Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Congo (a country in Central Africa, larger and to the east of the Republic of the Congo)

Congo (a country in Central Africa, smaller and to the west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Congo (a large river in Africa, which flows for about 4,380 km (2,720 miles) to the Atlantic Ocean in the Democratic Republic of Congo)


Congo

Congo (a region of Central Africa, comprising the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo)


Moldova

Unclear; see Romanian Moldova for theories.


Moldova

Moldovă (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
o Moldovă (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
Moldova (accusative definite nominative singular)
Moldove (dative genitive indefinite singular)
unei Moldove (dative genitive indefinite singular)
Moldovei (dative definite genitive singular)
Moldovă (singular vocative)
Moldovo (singular vocative)

Of unclear origin. The suffix -ova is probably of Slavic origin. Theories about the first element:
* It is possibly ultimately from Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌻𐌳𐌰 (mulda, “dust, mud”) (possibly Moldavia); compare the river Mulde in Germany and Moldau, the German name of the river Vltava, which may be of related origin.
* Alternatively, it may be related to Romanian molid (“spruce”), though the loss of the i in this word is difficult to explain.
* A folk etymology, according to Dimitrie Cantemir, says the name of the Moldova River comes from Prince Dragoș, after his hound Molda, who drowned in it while attempting to hunt an aurochs.
* The Romanian people may have called themselves "Moldoveni" or "Munteni" (literally "of the mountains") so Moldova may alternatively derive from a Thracian-Illyrian language, from *mol (“mountain”) + *dava (“town”).
For more theories see Name of Moldova on Wikipedia.Wikipedia


Jordan

en-proper noun

Jordan (countable and uncountable, plural Jordans)

From Latin Iordanēs, from Ancient Greek Ἰορδάνης (Iordánēs), from Biblical Hebrew יַרְדֵּן (yardén, “Jordan (river)”). Doublet of Yarden.

der

A river in Western Asia, in the Middle East, that empties into the Dead Sea, flowing through Israel, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Jordan.


Jordan

From Latin Iordanes, from Ancient Greek Ἰορδάνης (Iordánēs), from Biblical Hebrew יַרְדֵּן (yardén, “Jordan (river)”). The given name is from Michael Jordan.

Jordan (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)

Jordan (a river in Western Asia, in the Middle East, that empties into the Dead Sea, flowing through Israel, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Jordan)


Jordan

Jordan (nominative singular)
Jordan (accusative nominative singular)
Jordanin (accusative genitive singular)
Jordanin (genitive singular)
Jordania (partitive singular)
Jordanissa (inessive singular)
Jordanista (elative singular)
Jordaniin (illative singular)
Jordanilla (adessive singular)
Jordanilta (ablative singular)
Jordanille (allative singular)
Jordanina (essive singular)
Jordaniksi (singular translative)
Jordanitta (abessive singular)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Jordanini (nominative singular)
Jordanini (accusative nominative singular)
Jordanini (accusative genitive singular)
Jordanini (genitive singular)
Jordaniani (partitive singular)
Jordanissani (inessive singular)
Jordanistani (elative singular)
Jordaniini (illative singular)
Jordanillani (adessive singular)
Jordaniltani (ablative singular)
Jordanilleni (allative singular)
Jordaninani (essive singular)
Jordanikseni (singular translative)
Jordanittani (abessive singular)
Jordanisi (nominative singular)
Jordanisi (accusative nominative singular)
Jordanisi (accusative genitive singular)
Jordanisi (genitive singular)
Jordaniasi (partitive singular)
Jordanissasi (inessive singular)
Jordanistasi (elative singular)
Jordaniisi (illative singular)
Jordanillasi (adessive singular)
Jordaniltasi (ablative singular)
Jordanillesi (allative singular)
Jordaninasi (essive singular)
Jordaniksesi (singular translative)
Jordanittasi (abessive singular)
Jordanimme (nominative singular)
Jordanimme (accusative nominative singular)
Jordanimme (accusative genitive singular)
Jordanimme (genitive singular)
Jordaniamme (partitive singular)
Jordanissamme (inessive singular)
Jordanistamme (elative singular)
Jordaniimme (illative singular)
Jordanillamme (adessive singular)
Jordaniltamme (ablative singular)
Jordanillemme (allative singular)
Jordaninamme (essive singular)
Jordaniksemme (singular translative)
Jordanittamme (abessive singular)
Jordaninne (nominative singular)
Jordaninne (accusative nominative singular)
Jordaninne (accusative genitive singular)
Jordaninne (genitive singular)
Jordanianne (partitive singular)
Jordanissanne (inessive singular)
Jordanistanne (elative singular)
Jordaniinne (illative singular)
Jordanillanne (adessive singular)
Jordaniltanne (ablative singular)
Jordanillenne (allative singular)
Jordaninanne (essive singular)
Jordaniksenne (singular translative)
Jordanittanne (abessive singular)
Jordaninsa (nominative singular)
Jordaninsa (accusative nominative singular)
Jordaninsa (accusative genitive singular)
Jordaninsa (genitive singular)
Jordaniaan (partitive singular)
Jordaniansa (partitive singular)
Jordanissaan (inessive singular)
Jordanissansa (inessive singular)
Jordanistaan (elative singular)
Jordanistansa (elative singular)
Jordaniinsa (illative singular)
Jordanillaan (adessive singular)
Jordanillansa (adessive singular)
Jordaniltaan (ablative singular)
Jordaniltansa (ablative singular)
Jordanilleen (allative singular)
Jordanillensa (allative singular)
Jordaninaan (essive singular)
Jordaninansa (essive singular)
Jordanikseen (singular translative)
Jordaniksensa (singular translative)
Jordanittaan (abessive singular)
Jordanittansa (abessive singular)


Jordan

de-proper noun

der Jordan m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Jordan or des Jordans)

der Jordan (canonical masculine)
des Jordan (definite genitive)
des Jordans (definite genitive)

one of several brooks or small rivers in Germany


Jordan

From Hebrew יַרְדֵּן (yardén), and Arabic الأردن (“al-'urdunn”).


Jordan

Jòrdan (canonical masculine)
Јо̀рдан (Cyrillic)
Jordan (nominative singular)
Jordana (genitive singular)
Jordanu (dative singular)
Jordan (accusative singular)
Jordane (singular vocative)
Jordanu (locative singular)
Jordanom (instrumental singular)


Jordan

From Old Swedish Iordan. Cognate with Old Danish Jordanus (partially latinized).


ao

head

㘭, 坳, 泑, 𪵲, 𬇚

vi-noun

㘭, 坳, 泑, 𪵲, 𬇚

cái (classifier)
㘭 (CJK)
坳 (CJK)
泑 (CJK)
𪵲 (CJK)
𬇚 (CJK)

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 澳 (“bay, inlet”, SV: áo). Compare Thai อ่าว (àao), Khmer អាវ (ʼaaw).

der

SV: <i class="Latn mention" lang="vi">áo</i>

vi-etym-sino

Nguyễn Khuyến, "Thu điếu (Autumn Fishing)"
Ao thu lạnh lẽo; nuớc trong veo;
Một chiếc thuyền câu bé tẻo teo;
The cold autumn pond; the clear water;
A tiny, itsy-bitsy, fishing boat;

1686 Matsuo Bashō, Haru no Hi, "No. 41"; 2007 Vietnamese translation by Nhật Chiêu; English translation by Reginald Horace Blyth
Ao cũ, con ếch nhảy vào, vang tiếng nước xao.

The old pond; A frog jumps in — The sound of the water.


spring

en-verb

spring (third-person singular simple present springs, present participle springing, simple past sprang or sprung, past participle sprung)

springs (present singular third-person)
springing (participle present)
sprang (past)
sprung (past)
sprung (participle past)
spring (infinitive)

From Middle English springen, from Old English springan (“to spring, leap, bounce, sprout forth, emerge, spread out”), from Proto-West Germanic *springan, from Proto-Germanic *springaną (“to burst forth”), from Proto-Indo-European *spre(n)ǵʰ- (“to move, race, spring”), from *sper- (“to jerk, twitch, snap, shove”).
cognates
* Saterland Frisian springe
* West Frisian springe
* Dutch springen
* German Low German springen
* German springen
* Danish springe
* Swedish springa
* Norwegian springe
* Faroese springa
* Icelandic springa (“to burst, explode”).
Other possible cognates include Lithuanian spreñgti (“to push (in)”), Old Church Slavonic прѧсти (pręsti, “to spin, to stretch”), Latin spargere (“to sprinkle, to scatter”), Ancient Greek σπέρχω (spérkhō, “to hasten”), Sanskrit स्पृहयति (spṛháyati, “to be eager”). Some newer senses derived from the noun.

cog

(intransitive) To move or burst forth.
To appear.

Dr. Sigmund Freud... says that everything you and I do springs from two motives: the sex urge and the desire to be great.

1936, Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People, page 42

There was moisture in the ground, and from it sprang a million flowers, gold and blue and brown and red.

1974, James Albert Michener, Centennial, page 338

Foxglove sprang tall and purple among the trees.

2006, N. Roberts, Morrigann's Cross, section VI

(intransitive) To move or burst forth.
To grow, to sprout.
(UK dialectal) To mature.

To move or burst forth.
To grow, to sprout.
To mature.

(figurative) To arise, to come into existence.

To move or burst forth.
To arise, to come into existence.

He hit the gas and the car sprang to life.

(intransitive) To move or burst forth.
(sometimes figurative) To enliven.

Deer spring with their hind legs, using their front hooves to steady themselves.

...into helle spring...

c. 1250, Life of St Margaret, Trin. Col. MS B.14.39 (323), f. 22v

Ye kynge... sprange out of his chare and resseyuyd them worshipfully.

1474, William Caxton, transl., Game and Playe of the Chesse, iii, vii, 141

...the Mountain Stag, that springs
From Height to Height, and bounds along the Plains,
Nor has a Master to restrain his Course...

...out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.

1827, Clement Clarke Moore, (A Visit from St. Nicholas)

Thus she advanced; her belly low, almost touching the surface of the ground—a great cat preparing to spring upon its prey.

1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 5, in Tarzan of the Apes

Reporters sprang to the conclusion that the speech would make detailed new commitments...

(figurative, usually with cardinal adverbs) To move with great speed and energy.

To move or burst forth.
To move with great speed and energy.

He sprang from peasant stock.

From this basis, a first-order difference equation for the evolution of capital per worker is found, and the time path of the economy springs from this equation.

2008, George McCandless, The ABCs of RBCs, Harvard University Press, page 7

(usually with from) To be born, descend, or originate from

To move or burst forth.
To be born, descend, or originate from

(obsolete) To rise in social position or military rank, to be promoted.

...for swenge swat ædrum sprong
forð under fexe.
...for the swing, the blood from his veins sprang
forth under his hair.

...þe wound þat was springand with huge stremes of blude...

c. 1540, Livy, translated by John Bellenden, History of Rome, Vol. I, i, xxii, p. 125

The boat sprang a leak and began to sink.


spring

en-noun

spring (countable and uncountable, plural springs)

From Middle English spryng (“a wellspring, tide, branch, sunrise, kind of dance or blow, ulcer, snare, flock”); partly from Old English spring (“wellspring, ulcer”), from Proto-West Germanic *spring, from Proto-Germanic *springaz (“a wellspring, fount”); and partly from Old English spryng (“a jump”), from Proto-West Germanic *sprungi, from Proto-Germanic *sprungiz (“a jump”). Further senses derived from the verb and from clippings of day-spring, springtime, spring tide, etc. Its sense as the season, first attested in a work predating 1325, gradually replaced Middle English lente, lentin, from Old English lencten (“spring, Lent”) as that word became more specifically liturgical. Compare fall.

ааԥын

season between winter and summer in temperate climates

Heav'ns what a spring was in his Arm, to throw:
How high he held his Shield, and rose at ev'ry blow!

1697, John Dryden, Virgil's Aeneis, Bk. xi, ll. 437–8

Mrs Durbeyfield, excited by her song, trod the rocker with all the spring that was left in her after a long day's seething in the suds.

1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 30

(uncountable) Springiness: an attribute or quality of springing, springing up, or springing back, particularly


bank

bank (indefinite nominative singular)
banken (definite nominative singular)
banker (indefinite nominative plural)
bankerna (definite nominative plural)
banks (genitive indefinite singular)
bankens (definite genitive singular)
bankers (genitive indefinite plural)
bankernas (definite genitive plural)

→ Elfdalian: baunka

→ Finnish: pankki

From Dutch bank, German Bank or Low German bank, all from Italian banco, from Old High German banc, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

a bank (financial institution, branch of such an institution)


Montreal

/ˌmɔ̃ɹeɪˈæl/

From French Montréal; from Mont Royal (“Mount Royal”) (mont + royal), after the nearby hill by Jacques Cartier. It is uncertain how Royal became -real. A common explanation is that real is the Middle French form of Royal, but Cartier himself recorded le mont Royal when he named it. It may have perhaps been from the Italian G.B. Rasmusio's 1556 map translating the name to Italian Monte Real.

A river in Algoma and Sudbury districts, Ontario, Canada.

A river in Timiskaming district, Ontario, Canada.

A river in No. 18, Saskatchewan, Canada.

A river on the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, United States.

A river in northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States.


kill

en-verb

kill (third-person singular simple present kills, present participle killing, simple past and past participle killed)

kills (present singular third-person)
killing (participle present)
killed (participle past)
killed (past)
kill (infinitive)

From Middle English killen, kyllen, cüllen (“to strike, beat, cut”), of obscure origin. Cognate with Scots kele, keil (“to kill”).
* Perhaps from Old English *cyllan, from Proto-West Germanic *kwulljan, from Proto-Germanic *kwuljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to throw, hit, hurt by throwing”).
* Or, possibly a variant of Old English cwellan (“to kill, murder, execute”) (see quell).
* Or, from Old Norse kolla (“to hit on the head, harm”), related to Norwegian kylla (“to poll”), Middle Dutch kollen (“to knock down”), Icelandic kollur (“top, head”); see also coll, cole).
Compare also Saterland Frisian källe (“to hurt”), Middle Dutch kellen (“to kill, hurt”), Middle Low German kellen, killen (“to ache strongly, cause one great pain”), Middle High German kellen (“to torment; torture”).

cog

l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand

Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and drugs combined.

Indeed, referring to his drone murder extermination campaign Obama bragged: "I'm really good at killing people!" Those are Obama's own words!

2021, Francis A. Boyle, World Politics, Human Rights, and International Law, page 9

(transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.

As the ball was delivered deep into St Kilda's forward line by Billings, Bontempelli had position on the goal line, with a pack forming in front of him. He decided to fly but didn't kill the ball, leaving it to spill where he had been positioned moments earlier. Jack Sinclair gratefully swooped and kicked a goal that cut the margin to five points.

2015 May 10, Nathan Schmook, “Billings vs Bont”, in St Kilda Football Club

(transitive, sports) To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.


kill

The hunter delivered the kill with a pistol shot to the head.


quagmire

Recorded since 1579, from quag + mire. The sense “perilous, mixed up and troubled situation” has been recorded since 1775.
Alternatively, the word may apparently be a variation of the earlier quakemire, from quake + mire.

The paperwork got lost in a quagmire of bureaucracy.

Those election results are a quagmire for any coalition except one of national union.

I’ve had my doubts about Daenerys’ ability to rule, inspired in part by the quagmire in Meereen. Still, this feels like a precipitous decline. The queen of sobriquets has always been power hungry.

2019 May 5, Danette Chavez, “Campaigns are Waged On and Off the Game Of Thrones Battlefield (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2021-01-28

The only way to know Shakespeare is through his works, and his works are textual quagmires.

2021 November 24, Stephen Marche, “The Algorithm That Could Take Us Inside Shakespeare’s Mind”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(figuratively) A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle.


iceberg

[i.θeˈβ̞eɾɣ̞]

[ˈai̯z.β̞eɾɣ̞]

Borrowed from English iceberg, from Dutch ijsberg (literally “ice mountain”).

der

la punta del iceberg


see

From Dutch zee, from Middle Dutch sêe, from Old Dutch sēo, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz.

Laasweek het ons see toe gegaan.

Die trekvoëls vlieg oor die berge, oor die see, Lapland toe.
The migratory birds are flying over the mountains, over the sea, to Sápmi.


see

sêe (canonical feminine masculine)
sêe (nominative singular)
sêwen (nominative plural)
sêe (accusative singular)
sêwen (accusative plural)
sêwen (genitive singular)
sêwen (genitive plural)
sêe (dative singular)
sêwen (dative singular)
sêwen (dative plural)

desctree

Dutch: zee f
Afrikaans: see
Berbice Creole Dutch: sei
Javindo: see
Negerhollands: see
→ Saramaccan: zé
→ Sranan Tongo: se

Limburgish: zieë f

West Flemish: zji m or f, zêe

From Old Dutch sēo, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz.


see

English: sea

Scots: se, see, sey, seye, sie

Yola: zea, zee

table
Inherited from Old English sǣ, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz.


see

English: see

table
Borrowed from Old French sei, from Latin sedes.


hole

hola (definite singular)
holer (indefinite plural)
holene (definite plural)


Victoria

en-proper noun

Victoria (countable and uncountable, plural Victorias or Victoriae)

* From Latin Victōria, from victōria (“victory”). Doublet of Vitória.
* feminine of Victor; Victor + -ia
* Named in honour of Queen Victoria of Great Britain.

Ellipsis of Lake Victoria., the largest lake in Africa.


Amazonas

de-proper noun

Amazonas m (proper noun, strong, genitive Amazonas)

Amazonas (genitive)
Amazonas (nominative singular)
Amazonas (genitive singular)
Amazonas (dative singular)
Amazonas (accusative singular)


Amazonas

Amazonas (nominative singular)
Amazonast (accusative singular)
Amazonasnak (dative singular)
Amazonasszal (instrumental singular)
Amazonasért (causal-final singular)
Amazonasszá (singular translative)
Amazonasig (singular terminative)
Amazonasként (essive-formal singular)
Amazonasban (inessive singular)
Amazonason (singular superessive)
Amazonasnál (adessive singular)
Amazonasba (illative singular)
Amazonasra (singular sublative)
Amazonashoz (allative singular)
Amazonasból (elative singular)
Amazonasról (delative singular)
Amazonastól (ablative singular)
Amazonasé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
Amazonaséi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
Amazonasom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
Amazonasod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
Amazonasa (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
Amazonasunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
Amazonasotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
Amazonasuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)


Amazonas

Amazon (a river in northern South America)


Amazonas

→⇒ Ye'kwana: Amasonanña


Paraná

/ˌpæ.ɹəˈnɑː/

/pə.ˈɹɑː.nə/

From Spanish Paraná or Portuguese Paraná, both from Old Tupi paranã (“river”).

A river in central and southern South America.


Paraná

Borrowed from Spanish Paraná or Portuguese Paraná, both from Old Tupi paranã (“river”).

Paraná (a river in central and southern South America)


Paraná

Paraná m (proper noun, strong, genitive Paranás)


Paraná

→ Hunsrik: Paranaa

From Língua Geral paraná (“river”), from Old Tupi paranã (“sea”).


Paraná

Borrowed from Old Tupi paranã (“river”).


Saskatchewan

/səˈskæt͡ʃ.əˌwɑːn/

From Cree ᑭᓯᐢᑳᒋᐘᓂ ᓰᐱᕀ (kisiskaaciwani siipiy, “swift-flowing river”)/kisiskāciwani-sīpiy.


góra

górka (diminutive)
góra (nominative singular)
górje (dual nominative)
góry (nominative plural)
góry (genitive singular)
górowu (dual genitive)
górow (genitive plural)
górje (dative singular)
góroma (dative dual)
góram (dative plural)
góru (accusative singular)
górje (accusative dual)
góry (accusative plural)
góru (instrumental singular)
góroma (dual instrumental)
górami (instrumental plural)
górje (locative singular)
góroma (dual locative)
górach (locative plural)


góra

pl-noun

góra f (diminutive górka, abbreviation g.)

górka (diminutive)
g. (abbreviation)
góra (nominative singular)
góry (nominative plural)
góry (genitive singular)
gór (genitive plural)
górze (dative singular)
górom (dative plural)
górę (accusative singular)
góry (accusative plural)
górą (instrumental singular)
górami (instrumental plural)
górze (locative singular)
górach (locative plural)
góro (singular vocative)
góry (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish góra. Sense 5 is preserved in terms such as górnik and was displaced by kopalnia.

góra z górą się nie zejdzie, a człowiek z człowiekiem zawsze

góra z górą się nie zejdzie, ale człowiek

nie przyszła góra do Mahometa, przyszedł Mahomet do góry

Nie pomogę wam w tym projekcie, dopóki góra go nie przyklepie.

I won't help you with this project until the higher-ups sign off on it.

(uncountable) top (higher part of some object; upmost part of something)

(countable, Middle Polish) beginning, start (first part of something; top of a piece of text)

obiecać złote góry/obiecywać złote góry

to promise the moon (literally, “to promise golden mines”)

(countable, obsolete) mine (place for extracting resources)

(countable, Middle Polish, geography) cape (piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake)


Winnipeg

* From Ojibwe wiinibig (“dirty waters”), from wiini’ (“to make someone dirty”), wiinad (“it is dirty”), + nibi (“water”), plural nibig (“waters”).
* After the lake, from Cree/Swampy Cree ᐑᓂᐯᐠ (“muddy waters”), describing the river's water entering the lake (CanOD).

Winnipeg (disambiguation)
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Lake of the Woods
Lake of the Woods#English

Winnipeg River, a river that flows 813 km from Lake of the Woods, Ontario, Canada into Lake Winnipeg.


Winnipeg

Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye

* From English Winnipeg; see English etymology for more information. Rendered as Ouinipigon by La Vérendrye.

Winnipeg, Lake Winnipeg (a large lake in Manitoba, Canada)

Winnipeg, Winnipeg River (a river that flows 813 km from Lake of the Woods, Ontario, Canada into Lake Winnipeg)


Brisbane

Brisbane
Brisbane River
Sir Thomas Brisbane

From Scottish Gaelic bris (“break, smash”) + Old English bān (“bone”), a nickname given to someone who was often involved in fights, resulting in the breaking of bones. The city and river in Australia are named after Sir Thomas Brisbane, 1773–1860; governor of New South Wales (which at the time included the area of modern Queensland) from 1821 to 1825.

The Brisbane River, a river that flows through the city in Queensland.


Perth

From Scottish Gaelic Peairt, from Pictish *ᚚᚓᚏᚈ (pert) meaning “wood, copse, thicket”, related to Welsh perth and perhaps Proto-Celtic *kʷerxtā (from Proto-Indo-European *pérkʷus (“oak”).

A river in the Southern Alps of New Zealand, a tributary of the Whataroa.


Ontario

de-proper noun

Ontario n (proper noun, strong, genitive Ontarios)


Adelaide

→ Greek: Άντελαϊντ (Ántelaïnt)

Borrowed from French Adélaïde, from Old High German Adalheidis (from adal (“noble”) + -heit (“nature, character”)); doublet of Alice.

Adelaide (given name)
Adelaide River
Adelaide, South Australia

Queen Adelaide
w:Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen

William IV
w:William IV of the United Kingdom

Northern Territory
Northern Territory#English

Places named for Queen Adelaide, consort of William IV.

A river in the Northern Territory, Australia, known for its large population of saltwater crocodiles.


Kelantan

Unadapted borrowing from Malay Kelantan.


sungai

Inherited from Malay sungai, from Proto-Malayic *suŋay.

a large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea


sungai

ms-noun

sungai (Jawi spelling سوڠاي or سوڠي, plural sungai-sungai, informal 1st possessive sungaiku, 2nd possessive sungaimu, 3rd possessive sungainya)

سوڠاي (Jawi)
سوڠي (Jawi)
sungai-sungai (plural)
sungaiku (first-person informal possessive)
sungaimu (possessive second-person)
sungainya (possessive third-person)

> Indonesian: sungai (inherited)

→ Chinese: 雙溪／双溪

river (large stream which drains a landmass)


island

From earlier iland, from Middle English iland, yland, ylond, from Old English īeġland, from Proto-West Germanic *auwjuland, from Proto-Germanic *awjōlandą (from Proto-Germanic *awjō (“island, waterland, meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂) + *landą (“land”), equivalent to ey + land.
Doublet of Öland. Cognate with Scots island, iland, yland (“island”), West Frisian eilân (“island”), Saterland Frisian Ailound (“island”), Dutch eiland (“island”), Low German Eiland (“island”), German Eiland (“island”), Swedish ö (“island”), Öland (“Sweden's second largest island”), Danish ø (“island”), Norwegian øy (“island”), øyland (“large island”), Icelandic eyland (“island”).
The insertion of ⟨s⟩—a 16th century spelling modification—is due to a change in spelling to the unrelated term isle, which previously lacked s (cf. Middle English ile, yle). The re-addition was mistakenly carried over to include iland as well. Related also to German Aue (“water-meadow”), Latin aqua (“water”). More at ea.

адгьылбжьаха

area of land completely surrounded by water

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

an island of tranquility
(a calm place surrounded by a noisy environment)

an island of colors on a butterfly's wing

He was on the ball in a flash, swerving to the left of City’s goalkeeper, Ederson, before shaping his body for a tricky angled finish. He was an island of composure, floating in his 39th goal of the season with a delicate chip into the corner.

2018 April 10, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London)

King Leopold, speaking in fluent English during his six minute broadcast, said Belgium stood side by side with Holland "an Island of peace in the interests of all"

1939 October 27, Deseret News, Roosevelt Reaffirms American Neutrality

An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself.

oasis

an entity surrounded by other very different entities

Dunton island, near Birmingham, is one of the most confusingly labelled islands in the U.K.

In Coventry, you will often hear people say: “Turn right at the island”.

(by extension, West Midlands) A roundabout; a traffic circle.


island

en-verb

island (third-person singular simple present islands, present participle islanding, simple past and past participle islanded)

islands (present singular third-person)
islanding (participle present)
islanded (participle past)
islanded (past)

We paused at little river cities along the way and walked upon their bushy dikes, and heard tales of overflows in flood seasons, when four feet or more of water islanded the houses.

The car soon seemed islanded in water.

1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 138

(transitive) To surround with water; make into an island.


billabong

From Wiradjuri bilabang, likely a compound from Wiradjuri bila (“river”) and Wiradjuri bong or Wiradjuri bung (“dead”).

Oh there once was a swagman camped in the billabong,
Under the shade of a coolibah tree,
And he sang as he looked at the old billy boiling,
'Who'll come a'waltzing Matilda, with me.'

1895, “Waltzing Matilda”, Banjo Paterson (lyrics)

(Australia) An anabranch, backwater or oxbow lake that is temporarily cut off from the main river, especially one that is only filled with water during the rainy season and can sometimes dry up completely.


Leon

David Camden de Leon
Independence, Iowa
Juan Ponce de Leon
Legio VII Gemina
Martín De León
Mexican–American War

From Spanish León, from Latin legiō (“legion”), named for the Legio VII Gemina, which settled there. In reference to the New York town and Texan river, taken from the former Spanish kingdom. The Texan lake is named for the river. The Floridian county is named for the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon. The Texan county is named for Martin de Leon, founder of Victoria, Texas. The town in Monroe Co., Wisconsin, was named for the Mexican city. The Iowan town was changed to honor the "Fighting Doctor" of the Mexican–American War David Camden de Leon after it was discovered that Iowa already had a city named Independence. The Kansan town was named for the one in Iowa. Doublet of legion via Old French. The California town was named for the nearby Leon Mine.


Ottawa

From Ojibwe odaawaa (“traders”)/ᐅᑡᐙ, from Proto-Algonquian *atawewa (“to trade”).

St. Lawrence River
St. Lawrence River#English

A river flowing southeast between Ontario and Quebec, Canada into the St. Lawrence River.


Ottawa

ottawský (adjective)
Ottawa (nominative singular)
Ottawy (genitive singular)
Ottawě (dative singular)
Ottawu (accusative singular)
Ottawo (singular vocative)
Ottawě (locative singular)
Ottawou (instrumental singular)


kali

ms-noun

kali (Jawi spelling کالي, plural kali-kali, informal 1st possessive kaliku, 2nd possessive kalimu, 3rd possessive kalinya)

کالي (Jawi)
kali-kali (plural)
kaliku (first-person informal possessive)
kalimu (possessive second-person)
kalinya (possessive third-person)

From Javanese ꦏꦭꦶ (kali), from Old Javanese kali.


draw

en-noun

draw (countable and uncountable, plural draws)

From Middle English drawen, draȝen, dragen (“to drag, pull, push, draw (out), go to, make, add, etc.”), from Old English dragan, from Proto-West Germanic *dragan, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to draw, pull”). Doublet of drag and draught.
cognates
* Albanian dredh (“to turn, spin”)
* Danish drage
* Dutch dragen
* German tragen (“to carry”)
* Old Armenian դառնամ (daṙnam, “to turn”)
* Sanskrit ध्रजस् (dhrájas, “gliding course or motion”)
* West Frisian drage

cog

The garden, curiously enough, was a quarter of a mile from the house, and the way to it led up a shallow draw past the cattle corral.

1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia, paperback edition, Mirado Modern Classics, page 15

(geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.

suurveesäng

geography: dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding

wash

dry stream bed that drains water during periods of heavy precipitation


bred

head

bred (neuter bredt, plural and definite singular attributive brede, comparative bredere, superlative (predicative) bredest, superlative (attributive) bredeste)

bredt (neuter)
brede (attributive definite singular)
brede (attributive plural)
bredere (comparative)
bredest (predicative superlative)
bredeste (attributive superlative)

From Old Norse breiðr, from Proto-Germanic *braidaz.


bred

bred c (singular definite bredden, plural indefinite bredder)

bredden (definite singular)
bredder (indefinite plural)
bred (indefinite nominative singular)
bredden (definite nominative singular)
bredder (indefinite nominative plural)
bredderne (definite nominative plural)
breds (genitive indefinite singular)
breddens (definite genitive singular)
bredders (genitive indefinite plural)
breddernes (definite genitive plural)

From Old Danish bræd, from Proto-Germanic *brezdaz, cognate with Norwegian bredd, Swedish brädd, Old English breord. Related to *bruzdaz (“thorn”) (Danish brod) and possibly also *burdą (“board”) (Danish bord).


egg

eggen (definite singular)
egga (definite singular)
eggar (indefinite plural)
egger (indefinite plural)
eggane (definite plural)
eggene (definite plural)
Historical inflection of egg

nn-noun-infl

Egg <abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr>

From Old Norse egg f, from Proto-Germanic *agjō f (“edge, corner”), and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂eḱ-. Cognates include English edge and German Ecke.


dodo

The plants Adenia lobata and Adenia cissampeloides.


tundra

tundra (nominative singular)
tundrat (nominative plural)
tundran (genitive singular)
tundriin (genitive plural)
tundraa (partitive singular)
tundria (partitive plural)
tundraa (illative singular)
tundrii (illative plural)
tundraas (inessive singular)
tundriis (inessive plural)
tundrast (elative singular)
tundrist (elative plural)
tundralle (allative singular)
tundrille (allative plural)
tundraal (adessive singular)
tundriil (adessive plural)
tundralt (ablative singular)
tundrilt (ablative plural)
tundraks (singular translative)
tundriks (plural translative)
tundranna (essive singular)
tundraan (essive singular)
tundrinna (essive plural)
tundriin (essive plural)
tundrant (exessive singular)
tundrint (exessive plural)


tundra

tundraen (definite singular)
tundraer (indefinite plural)
tundraene (definite plural)

From Russian ту́ндра (túndra), from Kildin Sami тӯннтрэ (tūnntre), the accusative/genitive form of тӯнтар (tūntar).


tundra

tundraen (definite singular)
tundraer (indefinite plural)
trundraar (indefinite plural)
tundraene (definite plural)
tundraane (definite plural)


tundra

tundrowy (adjective)
tundra (nominative singular)
tundry (nominative plural)
tundry (genitive singular)
tundr (genitive plural)
tundrze (dative singular)
tundrom (dative plural)
tundrę (accusative singular)
tundry (accusative plural)
tundrą (instrumental singular)
tundrami (instrumental plural)
tundrze (locative singular)
tundrach (locative plural)
tundro (singular vocative)
tundry (plural vocative)


so

so (nominative singular)
sod (nominative plural)
son (accusative singular)
sod (accusative plural)
son (genitive singular)
soiden (genitive plural)
sod (partitive singular)
soid (partitive plural)
son (essive-instructive singular)
soin (essive-instructive plural)
soks (singular translative)
soikš (plural translative)
sos (inessive singular)
soiš (inessive plural)
sospäi (elative singular)
soišpäi (elative plural)
soho (illative singular)
soihe (illative plural)
sol (adessive singular)
soil (adessive plural)
solpäi (ablative singular)
soilpäi (ablative plural)
sole (allative singular)
soile (allative plural)
sota (abessive singular)
soita (abessive plural)
sonke (comitative singular)
soidenke (comitative plural)
sodme (prolative singular)
soidme (plural prolative)
sonno (approximative approximative-i singular)
soidenno (approximative approximative-i plural)
sonnoks (approximative approximative-ii singular)
soidennoks (approximative approximative-ii plural)
sonnopäi (egressive singular)
soidennopäi (egressive plural)
sohosai (singular terminative terminative-i)
soihesai (plural terminative terminative-i)
solesai (singular terminative terminative-ii)
soilesai (plural terminative terminative-ii)
sossai (singular terminative terminative-iii)
sohopäi (additive additive-i singular)
soihepäi (additive additive-i plural)
solepäi (additive additive-ii singular)
soilepäi (additive additive-ii plural)


bad

bád (canonical masculine)
badoodá (feminine plural)
bád (absolutive)
báda (predicative)
bád (subjective)
baddí (genitive)
bádal (l-case with-postposition)
bádak (k-case with-postposition)
bádat (t-case with-postposition)
bádah (h-case with-postposition)

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Somali bád and Saho bad.


sound

Sound (disambiguation)
Sound (geography)

From Middle English sound, sund, from Old English sund (“the power, capacity, or act of swimming; swimming; sea; ocean; water; sound; strait; channel”), from Proto-Germanic *sundą (“swimming; sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *swem- (“swimming; sea”).
Cognate with Dutch zond (“sound; strait”), Danish sund (“sound; strait; channel”), Swedish sund (“sound; strait; channel”), Icelandic sund (“sound; strait; channel”). Related to swim.

cog

Puget Sound; Owen Sound; Long Island Sound

(geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean.


ear

ēar (canonical masculine)
ēar (nominative singular)
ēaras (nominative plural)
ēar (accusative singular)
ēaras (accusative plural)
ēares (genitive singular)
ēara (genitive plural)
ēare (dative singular)
ēarum (dative plural)

From Proto-West Germanic *aur, from Proto-Germanic *auraz. Akin to Old Norse aurr (“mud”).


continent

Borrowed from Latin continens, noun use of present participle of continēre (“to contain”).

Each of the traditional main regions into which the Earth’s land surface is divided, including both an extent of mainland and various conventionally associated islands, etc; namely, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australasia/Oceania, North America, South America, and Antarctica.

kontinent

each of main land-masses on earth's surface


continent

→ Indonesian: kontinen

Borrowed from French continent, from Latin continēns.


continent

Antillean Creole: kontinan

Haitian Creole: kontinan

→ Romanian: continent


continent

continente (plural)
continent (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
un continent (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
continentul (accusative definite nominative singular)
continente (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
niște continente (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
continentele (accusative definite nominative plural)
continent (dative genitive indefinite singular)
unui continent (dative genitive indefinite singular)
continentului (dative definite genitive singular)
continente (dative genitive indefinite plural)
unor continente (dative genitive indefinite plural)
continentelor (dative definite genitive plural)
continentule (singular vocative)
continentelor (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Latin continens and/or from French continent.


South China Sea

The Philippine Islands are an archipelago southeast of Asia. They extend almost due north and south from Formosa to Borneo, and they separate the South China Sea from the Pacific Ocean.

1898 May, “The Philippine Islands”, in The Locomotive, volume XIX, number 5, Hartford, Conn.: Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company, →OCLC, page 77

Ignoring international law, the Chinese have claimed sovereignty over most of the South China Sea and are embarked upon a massive land reclamation and construction program to bolster these claims.

2015, Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America, Threshold Editions, →OCLC, →OL, page 222

The western arm of the Pacific Ocean, between the Asian mainland and Taiwan, Borneo and the Philippines.


look

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *luquk (“bay”). Compare Ilocano luek, Kapampangan lauk, Cebuano luok, Tausug luuk, and Malay teluk.

Look ng Maynila


slew

In all senses, a mostly British spelling of slue.

Wales, Northern England, some New England, Southern American, and Canadian


canal

→ Scottish Gaelic: canàl

Borrowed from Middle French canal, from Old French canal, from Latin canālis (“channel; canal”), from canālis (“canal”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). Doublet of channel.

(astronomy) One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars; see Martian canals


canal

Inherited from Latin canālis (“channel; canal”).


canal

→ Persian: کانال (kânâl)

→ Romanian: canal

→ Turkish: kanal

Borrowed from Latin canālis. Doublet of chenal.

channel (broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band of frequencies)


canal

From Old Galician-Portuguese canal (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): cana (“cane, reed”) + -al. Cognate with Spanish cañal.

V casares en Cesar os quaes fforon de Mayor Aras moller de Martin Sanchez Xarpa com huum paaço et con huum canal enno Tamare.

1375, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 385

5 farmhouses in Cesar, which belonged to Maior Aras, wife of Martín Sánchez Xarpa, with a manor and a fishery on the river Tambre

(dated) fish-weir; place or installation for fishing, on a river


canal

From Old Galician-Portuguese canal, from Latin canālis (“canal”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). This form may possibly be an early borrowing or semi-learned term; compare the fully inherited doublet cale, and related calha.


canal

canale (plural)
canaluri (plural)
canal (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
un canal (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
canalul (accusative definite nominative singular)
canale (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
niște canale (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
canalele (accusative definite nominative plural)
canal (dative genitive indefinite singular)
unui canal (dative genitive indefinite singular)
canalului (dative definite genitive singular)
canale (dative genitive indefinite plural)
unor canale (dative genitive indefinite plural)
canalelor (dative definite genitive plural)
canalule (singular vocative)
canalelor (plural vocative)
canal (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
un canal (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
canalul (accusative definite nominative singular)
canaluri (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
niște canaluri (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
canalurile (accusative definite nominative plural)
canal (dative genitive indefinite singular)
unui canal (dative genitive indefinite singular)
canalului (dative definite genitive singular)
canaluri (dative genitive indefinite plural)
unor canaluri (dative genitive indefinite plural)
canalurilor (dative definite genitive plural)
canalule (singular vocative)
canalurilor (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French canal, Latin canālis.


canal

→ Tagalog: kanal

Inherited from Old Spanish canal, from Latin canālis (“channel; canal”).


bog

Inherited from Middle English bog, from Irish and Scottish Gaelic bogach (“soft, boggy ground”), from Old Irish bog (“soft”), from Proto-Celtic *buggos (“soft, tender”) + Old Irish -ach, from Proto-Celtic *-ākos.
The frequent use to form compounds regarding the animals and plants in such areas mimics Irish compositions such as bog-luachair (“bulrush, bogrush”).
Its use for toilets is now often derived from the resemblance of latrines and outhouse cesspools to bogholes, but the noun sense appears to be a clipped form of boghouse (“outhouse, privy”), which derived (possibly via boggard) from the verb to bog, still used in Australian English. The derivation and its connection to other senses of "bog" remains uncertain, however, owing to an extreme lack of early citations due to its perceived vulgarity.

der

Certaine... places [in Ireland]... which of their softnes are vsually tearmed Boghes.

1612, John Speed, chapter IV, in The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, volume IV, page 143

You're dancing in quicksand
Why don't you watch where you're wandering?
Why don't you watch where you're stumbling?
You're wading knee deep and going in
And you may never come back again
This bog is thick and easy to get lost in

U-Mos: 'The swamplands of Torvus are treacherous, and can hinder you considerably. Bear this in mind as you move through the bog.'

2004 November 15, Retro Studios, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, Nintendo, level/area: Main Energy Controller (Great Temple)

(originally Ireland and Scotland) An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.

Damon does emphasize that great red rice should always be fluffy and never mushy like a rice bog.

2013, James Villas, Southern Fried: More Than 150 Recipes for Crab Cakes, Fried Chicken, Hush Puppies, and More, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 196

I love Chicken Bog because it's one of those very regional recipes that has survived […] Don't skim or otherwise remove the fat from the stock though—it will help flavor the bog. Let the chicken cool and then pick the meat, setting it aside for the bog recipe that follows. The broth will[…]

2016 October 1, Elliott Moss, Buxton Hall Barbecue's Book of Smoke: Wood-Smoked Meat, Sides, and More, Voyageur Press, page 113

Chicken and rice bog for their supper so she wouldn't have to cook.

2018, Ann W Phillips, Lady Of Esterbrooke


burn

en-verb

burn (third-person singular simple present burns, present participle burning, simple past and past participle burned or (mostly Commonwealth) burnt or (obsolete) brent)

burns (present singular third-person)
burning (participle present)
burned (participle past)
burned (past)
burnt (Commonwealth participle past)
burnt (Commonwealth past)
brent (obsolete participle past)
brent (obsolete past)
burn (infinitive)

Sranan Tongo: bron

Aukan: boon

From Middle English bernen, birnen, from Old English birnan (“to burn”), metathesis from Proto-West Germanic *brinnan, from Proto-Germanic *brinnaną (“to burn”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenw-, present stem from *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of brew.
See also Middle Irish brennim (“drink up”), bruinnim (“bubble up”); also Middle Irish bréo (“flame”), Albanian burth (“Cyclamen hederifolium, mouth burning”), Sanskrit भुरति (bhurati, “moves quickly, twitches, fidgets”). More at brew.

verbranden

chemistry: to cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent

He watched the house burn.

Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.

2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845

(intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.

We’ll burn this program onto an EEPROM one hour before the demo begins.

At first they didn’t do anything by design, beyond writing songs and gigging around Sheffield, distributing homemade demo CDs at shows. Their canny friends burned copies to leave on buses, but more importantly, uploaded them to filesharing sites and set up a MySpace page.

2015 October 22, Laura Snapes, “How Arctic Monkeys’ debut single changed the music industry and ‘killed the NME’”, in The Guardian

(transitive, computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.

(photography) To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).

lisävalottaa

photography: to increase the exposure for certain areas of a print

(intransitive, slang, US) To desire or ache for (something); to focus on attaining (something).


sot

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia root *(t)sott-.


spit

The noun is from Middle English spit, spite, spete, spette, spyte, spytte (“rod on which meat is cooked; rod used as a torture instrument; short spear; point of a spear; spine in the fin of a fish; pointed object; dagger symbol; land projecting into the sea”), from Old English spitu (“rod on which meat is cooked; spit”), from Proto-Germanic *spitō (“rod; skewer; spike”), *spituz (“rod on which meat is cooked; stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *spid-, *spey- (“sharp; sharp stick”). The English word is cognate with Dutch spit, Low German Spitt (“pike, spear; spike; skewer; spit”), Danish spid, Swedish spett (“skewer; spit; type of crowbar”).
The verb is derived from the noun, or from Middle English spiten (“to put on a spit; to impale”), from spit, spite: see above. The English verb is cognate with Middle Dutch speten, spitten (modern Dutch speten), Middle Low German speten (Low German spitten, modern German spießen (“to skewer, to spear”), spissen (now dialectal)) and Danish spidde.

inh

Sand-spits are unfinished beaches, and long tongues or points of land, formed of sand and shingle, by the transporting action of currents and the waves. In Coldspring harbor, a sand-spit extends from the west shore, obliquely, nearly across. [...] The materials are transported by the currents and waves, and deposited to form this spit.

1843, William W[illiams] Mather, “Marine Alluvial Detritus”, in Geology of New-York (Natural History of New York; part 4), part I (Comprising the Geology of the First Geological District), Albany, N.Y.: Printed by Carroll & Cook, […], →OCLC, page 28

Chiao Shih, 44 feet high, lies about 1/2 mile southeastward of Ko-li, a 199-foot islet, that lies close off the south end of Pei-kan-t’ang Tao and is connected to it by a stoney spit.

1962, Publications, number 94, United States Hydrographic Office, →OCLC, page 228, column 2

Playa margins are dominated by relict shoreline features, such as wave-cut terraces, depositional beach ridges, and offshore bars and spits.

2016, Robert C. Graham, A. Toby O’Geen, “Geomorphology and Soils”, in Harold Mooney, Erika Zavaleta, editors, Ecosystems of California, Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press, part 1 (Drivers), page 63, column 1

(geography) A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula.


Rom

A short river in Greater London which flows into the River Thames.


comb

English: comb

Scots: camb, came, kame, kaim, kem

Yola: cowm, khime

From Old English camb, comb, from Proto-West Germanic *kamb, from Proto-Germanic *kambaz.

A honeycomb (hexagonal structure of bees)


chan

From Old Galician-Portuguese chão, from Latin plānum. Compare Portuguese chão, Spanish llano.


fly

flya (definite singular)
flyer (indefinite plural)
flyene (definite plural)


lake

Arose from a conflation of the form of inherited Middle English lake (“small stream of running water, pool, lake”) with Middle English lac (“lake”), from Old French lac (“lake”) or Latin lacus (“lake, basin, tank”), see lac. The former, lake (“stream, pool, lake”), is inherited from Old English lacu (“stream, pool, expanse of water, lake”), from Proto-West Germanic *laku, from Proto-Germanic *lakō (“stream, pool, water aggregation”), ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *leg- (“to leak, drain”). It is related to Dutch laak (“stream, drainage ditch, pond”), German Low German Lake, Laak (“drainage, marshland”), German Lache (“puddle”), Icelandic lækur (“stream”).
Despite their similarity in form and meaning, Old English lacu is not related to English lay (“lake”), Latin lacus (“hollow, lake, pond”), Scottish Gaelic loch (“lake”), Ancient Greek λάκκος (lákkos, “waterhole, tank, pond, pit”), all from Proto-Indo-European *lókus, *l̥kwés (“lake, pool”).

noncog

So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?

A large amount of liquid; as, a wine lake.


cloud

English: cloud

Scots: clud, clood

From Old English clūd, from Proto-West Germanic *klūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz.

A cloud (mass of water vapour) or similar.


handle

desctree

→ Japanese: ハンドル (handoru)
→ Hokkien: 捍多路 (hăn-tó͘-luh)
→ Sakizaya: handulu

From Middle English handel, handle, from Old English handle (“a handle”), from handlian (“to handle, feel, deal with, discuss”). See verb below. Cognate with Danish handel (“a handle”).

The daily handle of a Las Vegas casino is typically millions of dollars.

For a casino table game,the handle is difficult to determine, as it consists of all the bets made in every game, whether by chip or by cash play.

2001, William Norman Thompson, Gambling in America: an encyclopedia of history, issues, and society, page 421

Note here, however, that the casino's "edge" (its expected value per unit bet, or, in casino jargon, the house p.c.) in table games is expressed as a percentage of the handle and not as a percentage of the drop (even though these might sometimes be the same).

2001, Harold L. Vogel, Travel industry economics: a guide for financial analysis, page 139

The results for the dog racing model indicate that increases in lottery sales and decreases in horse racing handle and casino revenues in the state in question statistically increase dog racing handle.

2007, Douglas M. Walker, The economics of casino gambling, page 77

(gambling) The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more establishments.

The successful businessman was knighted and acquired a handle to his name.

(slang) A title attached to one's name, such as Doctor or Colonel.


meer

nl-noun

meer n (plural meren, diminutive meertje n)

meren (plural)
meertje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: meer

From Middle Dutch mēre, from Old Dutch meri, from Proto-West Germanic *mari, from Proto-Germanic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

We gingen zwemmen in het meer.

Het meer was kalm en helder.

Er zijn veel vissen in dat meer.


seem

English: seam

Scots: seam

table
Inherited from Old English sēam (“seam”), from Proto-West Germanic *saum, from Proto-Germanic *saumaz. The "nail" sense is a semantic loan from Old Norse saumr.

inh+

A furrow or trench; a depression in the ground.


mal

sq-noun

mal m (plural male, definite mali, definite plural malet)

male (plural)
mali (definite)
malet (definite plural)
mal (indefinite nominative singular)
mali (definite nominative singular)
male (indefinite nominative plural)
malet (definite nominative plural)
mal (accusative indefinite singular)
malin (accusative definite singular)
male (accusative indefinite plural)
malet (accusative definite plural)
mali (dative indefinite singular)
malit (dative definite singular)
maleve (dative indefinite plural)
maleve (dative definite plural)
mali (ablative indefinite singular)
malit (ablative definite singular)
malesh (ablative indefinite plural)
maleve (ablative definite plural)

Aromanian: mal, meal

Romanian: mal (“shore”)

Ancient Greek language
Avestan language
Basque language
Illyrian language
Latvian language
Lithuanian language
Malayalam language
Old English language
Proto-Albanian language
Proto-Indo-European language
Sanskrit language
Tamil language
Vladimir Orel
sq:Mali (gjeografi)
substrate languages

From Proto-Albanian *mala, from Illyrian *mol-on. Vladimir Orel proposed Lithuanian malà (“land”) and Latvian mala (“bank, shore”) as cognates. Proto-Albanian *mal- reflecting an ancient Balkan toponym. Preserved in patroynms, ethnonym malësor (“highlander, mountaineer”), in toponym (historical and ethnographic region) Malësia (north Albania and Montenegro). In Kosovo (Malishevë, Gjilan, Mališevo, Prizren), in Serbia (Maleševo (Golubac), Maleševo (Rekovac)) and the name of Maleshevo Mountain (North Macedonia and Bulgaria). Gil'Ferding proposed Sanskrit मरु (marú, “wilderness, mountain, rock”) as a cognate.
According to Michel Morvan a common pre-Indo-European substrate with Basque malda (“slope”) and malkor (“precipice”) (cf. pre-Indo-European geonymic root *mal (*mel, *mol), Tamil மலை (malai, “hill, mountain”) and Malayalam മല (mala, “id”)).
La Piana and Huld suggested Old English molda (“forehead”) and Sanskrit मूर्धन् (mūrdhan, “head, top, summit”), both derived from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥Hdʰṓ. Also connected to Ancient Greek *μλωθρός (*mlōthrós), μέλαθρον (mélathron, “ridgepole”), βλαστάνω (blastánō, “to sprout, grow”). Compare also Ancient Greek βλωθρός (blōthrós, “lofty”), Avestan 𐬐𐬀-𐬨𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬜𐬋 (ka-mər^əδō, “demon's head”), with a semantic development from ‘head’ > ‘summit’, compare malë (“tongue tip, tree top”)) > ‘mountain’.


mal

maluri (plural)
mal (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
un mal (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
malul (accusative definite nominative singular)
maluri (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
niște maluri (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
malurile (accusative definite nominative plural)
mal (dative genitive indefinite singular)
unui mal (dative genitive indefinite singular)
malului (dative definite genitive singular)
maluri (dative genitive indefinite plural)
unor maluri (dative genitive indefinite plural)
malurilor (dative definite genitive plural)
malule (singular vocative)
malurilor (plural vocative)

Cognate to Aromanian mal and meal. From Proto-Albanian *mala (“mountain”) (Standard Albanian mal). See Albanian mal (“mountain”) for more.

Albanian language
Aromanian language
Proto-Albanian language
Vladimir Orel


mountain

en-noun

mountain (countable and uncountable, plural mountains)

[ˈmãʊ̯̃(n)ʔn̩]

[ˈmæ̃ʊ̯̃(n)ʔn̩]

From Middle English mountayne, mountain, montaigne, from Anglo-Norman muntaine, muntaigne, from Early Medieval Latin montānia, a collective based on Latin montem (“mountain”), from Proto-Indo-European *monti (compare Welsh mynydd (“mountain”), Albanian mat (“bank, shore”), Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬙𐬌 (mati, “promontory”)), from *men- (“to project, stick out”). Displaced native Old English beorg and dūn, and partially displaced non-native Old English munt, from Latin mōns (whence English mount).

(cartomancy) The twenty-first Lenormand card.


älv

älv (indefinite nominative singular)
älven (definite nominative singular)
älvar (indefinite nominative plural)
älvarna (definite nominative plural)
älvs (genitive indefinite singular)
älvens (definite genitive singular)
älvars (genitive indefinite plural)
älvarnas (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse elfr, from Proto-Germanic *albī (“river”). Compare Norwegian Bokmål elv, German Elbe.


river

→ Finnish: river (“river (in poker)”)

Sranan Tongo: liba

From Middle English ryver, from Anglo-Norman rivere, from Early Medieval Latin rīpāria (“littoral, riverbank”), from Latin rīpārius (“of a riverbank”), from Latin rīpa (“river bank”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyp- (“to scratch, tear, cut”). Unrelated to Latin rīvus (“stream”) (whence rival, derive). Doublet of riviera and rivière. Displaced native Old English ēa.

der

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class III § 348. River

Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods.

Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.

2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28

A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.


nut

nuten (definite singular)
nuter (indefinite plural)
nutene (definite plural)


nut

nuten (definite singular)
nutar (indefinite plural)
nutane (definite plural)


crown

→ Japanese: クラウン (kuraun)

→ Korean: 크라운 (keuraun)

→ Maori: karauna

From Middle English coroune, from Anglo-Norman corone, from Latin corōna (“crown, wreath”), from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē). Doublet of corona, koruna, krone, krona, and króna. Displaced native Old English corenbēag (“crown”); and Middle English kinehelm, kynehelm, from Old English cynehelm (“crown”).
* (paper size): So called because originally watermarked with a crown.

doublet

There is no difficulty getting married in Jamaica, is there? No, it only costs half a crown.

1866, Jamaica. Report of the Royal Jamaica Commission, 1866. Part II: Minutes of Evidence and Appendix, H.M.Stationery Office, page 558

Maggie Murphy had some knickers that she bought in Bagenalstown, an interlock of knickers that she got for a half a crown.

2009, “Maggie Murphy's Knickers” (track 8), in Stay Wut Her Johnny, performed by Richie Kavanagh

en:any of several Commonwealth coins worth five shillings

(historical, by extension) A coin or note worth five shillings in various countries that are or were in the British Commonwealth, such as Ireland or Jamaica.


pass

en-verb

pass (third-person singular simple present passes, present participle passing, simple past and past participle passed)

passes (present singular third-person)
passing (participle present)
passed (participle past)
passed (past)

From Middle English passen, from Old French passer (“to step, walk, pass”), from Vulgar Latin *passāre (“step, walk, pass”), derived from Latin passus (“a step”), from pandere (“spread, unfold, stretch”), from Proto-Italic *patnō, from Proto-Indo-European *pth₂noh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread, stretch out”). Cognate with Old English fæþm (“armful, fathom”). More at fathom.
Displaced native Old English gengan.

اِجْتَازَ

to go through any inspection or test successfully

hyväksyttää

to cause to advance by stages of process

(transitive) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.

keresztülmegy

to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer

(intransitive, obsolete) To take heed, to have an interest, to care.


swallow

en-noun

swallow (countable and uncountable, plural swallows)

From Middle English swolowen, swolwen, swolȝen, swelwen, swelȝen, from Old English swelgan, from Proto-West Germanic *swelgan, from Proto-Germanic *swelganą (“to swallow, revel, devour”), from Proto-Indo-European *swelk- (“to gulp”). Cognate with Dutch zwelgen (“to revel, carouse, guzzle”), German schwelgen (“to delight, indulge”), Swedish svälja (“to swallow, gulp”), Icelandic svelgja (“to swallow”), Old English swillan, swilian (“to swill, wash out, gargle”). See also swill.
The noun is from Middle English swelwe, swolwe, from Old English swelh, swelg (“gulf, chasm”) and ġeswelge (“gulf, chasm, abyss, whirlpool”), both from Proto-West Germanic *swelg, *swalgi, from Proto-Germanic *swelgaz, *swalgiz. Cognate with Old English swiliġe (“pit”), Scots swelch, swellie, swallie (“an abyss in the sea, whirpool”), Middle Low German swelch (“whirlpool, eddy”), Dutch zwelg (“gorge, chasm, gullet, throat”), Old Norse svelgr (“whirlpool, current, stream”).

cog

In addition, j-lock shackles can pass through the swallow of a modern genoa track even with a sheet in tension already there, and this is very useful when preparing a sail change on the same tack.

2008, Danilo Fabbroni, Rigging: Rig Your Boat Right for Racing or Cruising

Blocks are made in a great variety of patterns. All are designed to be used one way. The rope goes through the swallow.

2012, Percy W. Blandford, Practical Knots and Ropework, page 350

When specifying blocks, excessive friction is avoided by ensuring (a) that the diameter of the sheave is at least twice the circumference of the rope or six times its diameter (preferably more), and (b) that the 'swallow' of the block is substantially wider than the diameter of the rope, to avoid rubbing against the inside of the cheeks.

2012, H.G. Hasler, J.K. McLeod, Practical Junk Rig, page 171

(nautical) The opening in a pulley block between the sheave and shell through which the rope passes.


Mediterranean

/ˌmɛdɪtəˈɹeɪnɪən/

/ˌmɛdɪtəˈɹeɪnɪən/

[mɛɾəɾəˈɹeɪnɪən]

Borrowed from Latin mediterrāneus, from medius (“middle”) + terra (“earth, land”) + -āneus (adjectival suffix).

Mediterranean Sea
Mediterranean Sea#English

Ellipsis of Mediterranean Sea; a sea between Europe and Africa, an inland branch of the Atlantic.


loch

From Middle English lough, borrowed from Scottish Gaelic loch. Doublet of lough and Looe.

The greater part of Leuchars Loch belonged to the Inneses of Leuchars, Cotts to the Inneses of Innes; and while thus poſſeſſed, many unſucceſsful attempts to drain both, by canals, to the river Loſſie, ſeem to have been made. […] [A] very ordinary fall of rain raiſes it [the river] far beyond its natural bounds; and the immediate conſequence of ſuch floods, was, the ſpeat-water flowing into thoſe lochs, by the canal, and covering the adjacent meadows.

1802 November 1, “Account of the Drainage of the Lochs at Leuchars and Cotts, in the County of Moray”, in The Farmer’s Magazine: A Periodical Work, Exclusively Devoted to Agriculture, and Rural Affairs, volume III, number XII, Edinburgh: Printed by D. Willison, for Archibald Constable, [...], →OCLC, pages 453–454

But, enchanting as are the woodland banks of the quiet stream, there is to me a higher and yet more powerful charm in the solitary wildness or savage grandeur of the Highland loch.

1840, John Colquhoun, “Loch-fishing”, in The Moor and the Loch: […], Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons; London: T[homas] Cadell, →OCLC, page 56

This book may possibly fall into the hands of tourists in the Highlands; and if it should induce any one to visit the Isles of Loch Awe, a few words on my part may save him a good deal of trouble. The inns are so badly situated that no visitors but sportsmen and painters ever think of staying long at Loch Awe. The hotel at Dalmally is an old inconvenient house, three miles from the loch, and wants rebuilding. The inn at Cladich is a mile from the loch, and the footpath in wet weather is almost impassable.

1855, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, “Notes [on the poem The Isles of Loch Awe]”, in The Isles of Loch Awe and Other Poems of My Youth, London: W. E. Painter, […], →OCLC, page 91

Mr. [James M.] Gale's scheme for doubling the [water] supply was carried through both Houses of Parliament, and was at once put into construction. It especially included the raising of the boundaries of the loch, and it brought into assistance and use other lochs in the Loch Katrine area; and Glasgow and its suburbs are now supplied with water as no other community in the kingdom is supplied.

1903 September 11, “The Late Mr. James M. Gale”, in W[illiam] H[enry] Maw, J[ames] Dredge [Jr.], editors, Engineering: An Illustrated Weekly Journal, volume LXXVI, London: Offices for advertisements and publication—35 & 36, Bedford Street, Strand, W.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 351, column 2

[…] Marmaduke Wetherell was hired by the Daily Mail newspaper to lead a search for the lair of the Loch Ness Monster. […] To everyone's surprise, within a few days of the start of his search, Wetherell came across a huge, four-toed footprint along the shoreline of the loch. This was just the sort of sensational story the newspaper was hoping for.

2010 January, Rick Emmer, “Into the Limelight”, in Loch Ness Monster: Fact or Fiction? (Creature Science Investigation), New York, N.Y.: Chelsea House Publishers, Infobase Publishing, page 28


loch

head

loch m (genitive singular locha, nominative plural lochanna)

locha (genitive singular)
lochanna (nominative plural)
loch (indefinite nominative singular)
lochanna (indefinite nominative plural)
a loch (indefinite singular vocative)
a lochanna (indefinite plural vocative)
locha (genitive indefinite singular)
lochanna (genitive indefinite plural)
loch (dative indefinite singular)
lochanna (dative indefinite plural)
an loch (definite nominative singular)
na lochanna (definite nominative plural)
an locha (definite genitive singular)
na lochanna (definite genitive plural)
leis an loch (dative definite singular)
don loch (dative definite singular)
leis na lochanna (dative definite plural)

→ English: lough

→ Yola: Lough

loch (GA)

From Old Irish loch, from Proto-Celtic *loku, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (compare Latin lacus, Old English lagu).


loch

loch f (genitive singular locha, plural lochan)

locha (genitive singular)
lochan (plural)

desctree

→ Middle English: lough, loch, louche; luh
English: lough, loch
Scots: loch

From Old Irish loch, from Proto-Celtic *loku, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus.


丘

xug-head

丘(ふぁーい) (fāi)


бочаг

ru-noun+

боча́г • (bočág) m inan (genitive бочага́, nominative plural бочаги́, genitive plural бочаго́в)

боча́г (canonical)
bočág (romanization)
бочага́ (genitive)
бочаги́ (nominative plural)
бочаго́в (genitive plural)
боча́г (nominative singular)
бочаги́ (nominative plural)
бочага́ (genitive singular)
бочаго́в (genitive plural)
бочагу́ (dative singular)
бочага́м (dative plural)
боча́г (accusative singular)
бочаги́ (accusative plural)
бочаго́м (instrumental singular)
бочага́ми (instrumental plural)
бочаге́ (prepositional singular)
бочага́х (plural prepositional)

(regional, hydrology) deep pool, small pit filled with water, underwater hole in the bed of a river or lake (any wide or deep cavity of earth that is situated on a riverbed or at the bottom of a small river, a lake, or a swamp)


mase

Dutch: Maas


ю

ju (romanization)
ю (nominative singular)
юяс (nominative plural)
ю (accusative accusative-i singular)
юяс (accusative accusative-i plural)
юӧс (accusative accusative-ii singular)
юясӧс (accusative accusative-ii plural)
юӧн (instrumental singular)
юясӧн (instrumental plural)
юкӧд (comitative singular)
юяскӧд (comitative plural)
ютӧг (caritive singular)
юястӧг (caritive plural)
юла (consecutive singular)
юясла (consecutive plural)
юлӧн (genitive singular)
юяслӧн (genitive plural)
юлысь (ablative singular)
юяслысь (ablative plural)
юлы (dative singular)
юяслы (dative plural)
юын (inessive singular)
юясын (inessive plural)
юысь (elative singular)
юясысь (elative plural)
юӧ (illative singular)
юясӧ (illative plural)
юсянь (egressive singular)
юяссянь (egressive plural)
юлань (approximative singular)
юяслань (approximative plural)
юӧдз (singular terminative)
юясӧдз (plural terminative)
юӧд (prolative prolative-i singular)
юясӧд (plural prolative prolative-i)
юті (prolative prolative-ii singular)
юясті (plural prolative prolative-ii)
юӧй (nominative singular)
юясӧй (nominative plural)
юӧй (accusative accusative-i singular)
юясӧй (accusative accusative-i plural)
юӧс (accusative accusative-ii singular)
юясӧс (accusative accusative-ii plural)
юнам (instrumental singular)
юяснам (instrumental plural)
юӧйкӧд (comitative singular)
юясӧйкӧд (comitative plural)
ютӧгым (caritive singular)
юястӧгым (caritive plural)
юӧйла (consecutive singular)
юясӧйла (consecutive plural)
юӧйлӧн (genitive singular)
юясӧйлӧн (genitive plural)
юӧйлысь (ablative singular)
юясӧйлысь (ablative plural)
юӧйлы (dative singular)
юясӧйлы (dative plural)
юам (inessive singular)
юясам (inessive plural)
юсьым (elative singular)
юяссьым (elative plural)
юам (illative singular)
юясам (illative plural)
юсяньым (egressive singular)
юяссяньым (egressive plural)
юланьым (approximative singular)
юясланьым (approximative plural)
юӧдзым (singular terminative)
юясӧдзым (plural terminative)
юӧдым (prolative prolative-i singular)
юясӧдым (plural prolative prolative-i)
ютіым (prolative prolative-ii singular)
юястіым (plural prolative prolative-ii)
юыд (nominative singular)
юясыд (nominative plural)
юыд (accusative accusative-i singular)
юясыд (accusative accusative-i plural)
ютӧ (accusative accusative-ii singular)
юястӧ (accusative accusative-ii plural)
юнад (instrumental singular)
юяснад (instrumental plural)
юыдкӧд (comitative singular)
юясыдкӧд (comitative plural)
ютӧгыд (caritive singular)
юястӧгыд (caritive plural)
юыдла (consecutive singular)
юясыдла (consecutive plural)
юыдлӧн (genitive singular)
юясыдлӧн (genitive plural)
юыдлысь (ablative singular)
юясыдлысь (ablative plural)
юыдлы (dative singular)
юясыдлы (dative plural)
юад (inessive singular)
юясад (inessive plural)
юсьыд (elative singular)
юяссьыд (elative plural)
юад (illative singular)
юясад (illative plural)
юсяньыд (egressive singular)
юяссяньыд (egressive plural)
юланьыд (approximative singular)
юясланьыд (approximative plural)
юӧдзыд (singular terminative)
юясӧдзыд (plural terminative)
юӧдыд (prolative prolative-i singular)
юясӧдыд (plural prolative prolative-i)
ютіыд (prolative prolative-ii singular)
юястіыд (plural prolative prolative-ii)
юыс (nominative singular)
юясыс (nominative plural)
юыс (accusative accusative-i singular)
юясыс (accusative accusative-i plural)
юсӧ (accusative accusative-ii singular)
юяссӧ (accusative accusative-ii plural)
юнас (instrumental singular)
юяснас (instrumental plural)
юыскӧд (comitative singular)
юясыскӧд (comitative plural)
ютӧгыс (caritive singular)
юястӧгыс (caritive plural)
юысла (consecutive singular)
юясысла (consecutive plural)
юыслӧн (genitive singular)
юясыслӧн (genitive plural)
юыслысь (ablative singular)
юясыслысь (ablative plural)
юыслы (dative singular)
юясыслы (dative plural)
юас (inessive singular)
юясас (inessive plural)
юсьыс (elative singular)
юяссьыс (elative plural)
юас (illative singular)
юясас (illative plural)
юсяньыс (egressive singular)
юяссяньыс (egressive plural)
юланьыс (approximative singular)
юясланьыс (approximative plural)
юӧдзыс (singular terminative)
юясӧдзыс (plural terminative)
юӧдыс (prolative prolative-i singular)
юясӧдыс (plural prolative prolative-i)
ютіыс (prolative prolative-ii singular)
юястіыс (plural prolative prolative-ii)
юным (nominative singular)
юясным (nominative plural)
юным (accusative accusative-i singular)
юясным (accusative accusative-i plural)
юнымӧ (accusative accusative-ii singular)
юяснымӧ (accusative accusative-ii plural)
юнаным (instrumental singular)
юяснаным (instrumental plural)
юнымкӧд (comitative singular)
юяснымкӧд (comitative plural)
ютӧгным (caritive singular)
юястӧгным (caritive plural)
юнымла (consecutive singular)
юяснымла (consecutive plural)
юнымлӧн (genitive singular)
юяснымлӧн (genitive plural)
юнымлысь (ablative singular)
юяснымлысь (ablative plural)
юнымлы (dative singular)
юяснымлы (dative plural)
юаным (inessive singular)
юясаным (inessive plural)
юсьыным (elative singular)
юяссьыным (elative plural)
юаным (illative singular)
юясаным (illative plural)
юсяньным (egressive singular)
юяссяньным (egressive plural)
юланьным (approximative singular)
юясланьным (approximative plural)
юӧдзным (singular terminative)
юясӧдзным (plural terminative)
юӧдным (prolative prolative-i singular)
юясӧдным (plural prolative prolative-i)
ютіным (prolative prolative-ii singular)
юястіным (plural prolative prolative-ii)
юныд (nominative singular)
юясныд (nominative plural)
юныд (accusative accusative-i singular)
юясныд (accusative accusative-i plural)
юнытӧ (accusative accusative-ii singular)
юяснытӧ (accusative accusative-ii plural)
юнаныд (instrumental singular)
юяснаныд (instrumental plural)
юныдкӧд (comitative singular)
юясныдкӧд (comitative plural)
ютӧгныд (caritive singular)
юястӧгныд (caritive plural)
юныдла (consecutive singular)
юясныдла (consecutive plural)
юныдлӧн (genitive singular)
юясныдлӧн (genitive plural)
юныдлысь (ablative singular)
юясныдлысь (ablative plural)
юныдлы (dative singular)
юясныдлы (dative plural)
юаныд (inessive singular)
юясаныд (inessive plural)
юсьыныд (elative singular)
юяссьыныд (elative plural)
юаныд (illative singular)
юясаныд (illative plural)
юсяньныд (egressive singular)
юяссяньныд (egressive plural)
юланьныд (approximative singular)
юясланьныд (approximative plural)
юӧдзныд (singular terminative)
юясӧдзныд (plural terminative)
юӧдныд (prolative prolative-i singular)
юясӧдныд (plural prolative prolative-i)
ютіныд (prolative prolative-ii singular)
юястіныд (plural prolative prolative-ii)
юныс (nominative singular)
юясныс (nominative plural)
юныс (accusative accusative-i singular)
юясныс (accusative accusative-i plural)
юнысӧ (accusative accusative-ii singular)
юяснысӧ (accusative accusative-ii plural)
юнаныс (instrumental singular)
юяснаныс (instrumental plural)
юнымкӧс (comitative singular)
юяснымкӧс (comitative plural)
ютӧгныс (caritive singular)
юястӧгныс (caritive plural)
юнысла (consecutive singular)
юяснысла (consecutive plural)
юныслӧн (genitive singular)
юясныслӧн (genitive plural)
юныслысь (ablative singular)
юясныслысь (ablative plural)
юныслы (dative singular)
юясныслы (dative plural)
юаныс (inessive singular)
юясаныс (inessive plural)
юсьыныс (elative singular)
юяссьыныс (elative plural)
юаныс (illative singular)
юясаныс (illative plural)
юсяньныс (egressive singular)
юяссяньныс (egressive plural)
юланьныс (approximative singular)
юясланьныс (approximative plural)
юӧдзныс (singular terminative)
юясӧдзныс (plural terminative)
юӧдныс (prolative prolative-i singular)
юясӧдныс (plural prolative prolative-i)
ютіныс (prolative prolative-ii singular)
юястіныс (plural prolative prolative-ii)

From Proto-Permic *ju, from Proto-Uralic *joke. Cognates include Finnish joki and Hungarian jó.


坡

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pʰaːl) : semantic 土 (“dirt”) + phonetic 皮 (OC *bral).

Han compound

坡幣／坡币

(Taiwan, Hong Kong) Short for 新加坡 (Xīnjiāpō, “Singapore”).


壩

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *praːɡs) : semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 霸 (OC *praːɡs).

Han compound

beach (sandy, on a river, lake or coast, used chiefly in place names)


婺

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *moɡs) : phonetic 敄 (OC *moʔ, *mos) + semantic 女 (“woman”).


岷

(～江) Min River (a river in Sichuan Province, China)


峽

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡreːb) : semantic 山 (“mountain”) + phonetic 夾 (OC *kreːb).


崖

Derivation unclear. First attested in the late 1100s.
Modern references either omit this reading entirely or provide no pitch accent information for this reading, suggesting that it might be archaic or even obsolete in modern usage.

(archaic, possibly obsolete) a steep area on a mountainside, a cliff


川

/ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵/

/ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵/

Pictogram (象形) – compare 水 (OC *qʰʷljilʔ).
The Middle and Old Chinese reconstruction of this word is phonologically problematic (STEDT):
* Karlgren (1957) notes that the Middle Chinese form is irregular based on evidence from Shijing rimes.
* Based on velar contacts in the same phonetic series, e.g. 巛, 甽 and 訓, Baxter (1992) and Schuessler (2007) reconstruct the word with a velar initial (Handel, 1998; Sagart, 1999), which undergoes irregular palatalization in the development to Middle Chinese (Baxter, 1992).
* Based on other characters in the same phonetic series, e.g. 順 and 馴, Sagart (1999), and later, Baxter and Sagart (2014), reconstructs 川 with a lateral initial and suggests that only a *t- prefix would account for the Middle Chinese initial /t͡ɕʰ/.
Schuessler (2007) relates this word to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kl(j)u(ŋ/k) (“river; valley”), whence 江 (OC *kroːŋ, “river”), 谷 (OC *kloːɡ, “valley”), Tibetan ཀླུང (klung, “river”), Burmese ချောင်း (hkyaung:, “stream”). STEDT notes that this does not account for the *-n coda.
STEDT instead compares it to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-t(w)əj-n ~ m-ti-s (“water; fluid; liquid; river; soak; spit”), whence 涕 (OC *tʰiːlʔ, “tears”), Proto-Kuki-Chin *tuj (“water; fluid; liquid”), Chepang तीः (“water; rain; river”); this depends on a reconstruction with a dental initial and requires positing an *‑n suffix not present in Tibeto-Burman languages.

cog

川流不息

子在川上，曰：「逝者如斯夫！不舍昼夜。」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
Zǐ zài chuān shàng, yuē: “Shì zhě rúsī fū! Bù shè zhòuyè.” [Pinyin]

子在川上，曰：「逝者如斯夫！不舍晝夜。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]

The Master standing by a stream, said, "It passes on just like this, not ceasing day or night!"

川菜 ― chuāncài ― Sichuan cuisine

Short for 四川 (Sìchuān, “Sichuan Province, China”).

平川

Synonym of 汆 (cuān, “to boil food for a short time in boiled water”)

汆

挺川

川粉 ― chuānfěn ― Trumpster

(Internet slang) Short for 川普 (Chuānpǔ, “Donald Trump”).


島

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (島):
* → Japanese: 島(とう) (tō)
* → Korean: 도(島) (do)
* → Vietnamese: đảo (島)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tuːwʔ) : phonetic 鳥 (OC *tɯːwʔ) + semantic 山 (“mountain”).
Reminiscent of Mon လ္ကံ (from Proto-Mon-Khmer *tkɔɔʔ), but probably not related (Schuessler, 2007).

Han compound

岛
㠀
嶋
嶌
隝
嶹
隯


島

/sima/ → /ɕima/
From Old Japanese, ultimately from Proto-Japonic *sima.
Possibly related to Baekje 斯麻 (*syema, “island”) and Middle Korean 셤 (syem), whence modern Korean 섬 (seom, “island”).


島

島 (canonical)
tō (romanization)
tau (romanization)
たう (hiragana historical)

/tau/ → /tɔː/ → /toː/
From Middle Chinese 島 (MC tawX).


島

From Proto-Ryukyuan *sima, from Proto-Japonic *sima.


島

From Proto-Ryukyuan *sima, from Proto-Japonic *sima. Cognate with Japanese 島 (shima).


mare

From Latin mare, from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Latin language
Proto-Indo-European language
Proto-Italic language
it:mare


mare

la-noun

mare n (genitive maris); third declension

maris (genitive)
mare (nominative singular)
maria (nominative plural)
maris (genitive singular)
marium (genitive plural)
marum (genitive plural)
marī (dative singular)
maribus (dative plural)
mare (accusative singular)
maria (accusative plural)
marī (ablative singular)
mare (ablative singular)
maribus (ablative plural)
mare (singular vocative)
maria (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

Aromanian: amari, amare, mari

Istro-Romanian: måre

Megleno-Romanian: mari

Romanian: mare f

Gallo-Italic:

Emilian: mèr

Ligurian: mâ, mà

Lombard: mar

Piedmontese: mar

Romagnol: mêr

Italo-Dalmatian:

Corsican: mare

Dalmatian: mur

Gallurese: mari

Istriot: mare

Italian: mare

Neapolitan: mare

Sardinian: mare, mari

Sassarese: mari

Sicilian: mari

Navarro-Aragonese:

Aragonese: mar

desctree

Old French: mer f
French: mer
Antillean Creole: lanmè
Haitian Creole: lanmè
→ Volapük: mel
Norman: mé (Jersey)
Walloon: mer

Old Leonese: *mar

Asturian: mar

Extremaduran: mari

Mirandese: mar

Old Occitan: mar

Catalan: mar m or f

Occitan: mar

Old Galician-Portuguese: mar m, mare
Galician: mar m
Portuguese: mar m (see there for further descendants)

Old Spanish: mar

Ladino: mar

Spanish: mar m or f
→ Aymara: lamara
→ Classical Nahuatl: láma̱r
→ Papiamentu: lama, laman

Rhaeto-Romance:

Friulian: mâr

Romansch: mar, mer

Venetian: mar

→ English: mare

→ Esperanto: maro
Ido: maro

→ Interlingua: mar

Proto-Indo-European language
Proto-Italic language
la:mare

From Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Neptunum regnatorem marum

c. 270 BCE – c. 201 BCE, Gnaeus Naevius, Bellum Punicum, (fragment in Priscian, Institutiones Grammaticae, 7, De genetivo plurali tertiae declinationis)

[facit...] ad onera ac multitudinem iumentorum transportandam paulo latiores quam quibus in reliquis utimur maribus.

c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 5.1

In order to transport cargo and beasts of burden, he [Julius Caesar] had them made a little wider than the ones we use in other seas.

Et oportet ut alienentur cornute et varie et aspides declines ad albedinem. Et non capiantur ex piscinis vel litoribus fluviorum et aquarum vel marium, vel de petrosis, quoniam in eis sunt quercine, facientes sitim, immo capiantur in loco longinquo ab humorositate.

13th c., Roger Bacon, Secretum Secretorum 2.29 (De preparacione carnum viperarum sive serpentum et draconum)

a marī usque ad mare

1921, Joseph Pope, George Monro Grant, Canada's official motto


mare

mări (plural)
mare (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
o mare (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
marea (accusative definite nominative singular)
mări (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
niște mări (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
mările (accusative definite nominative plural)
mări (dative genitive indefinite singular)
unei mări (dative genitive indefinite singular)
mării (dative definite genitive singular)
mări (dative genitive indefinite plural)
unor mări (dative genitive indefinite plural)
mărilor (dative definite genitive plural)
mare (singular vocative)
mareo (singular vocative)
mărilor (plural vocative)

Latin language
Proto-Indo-European language
Proto-Italic language

Când am mers la mare, am înotat un pic și mai târziu am prins un pește mare.

When I went to sea, I swam a little and later caught a big fish.


敦

Originally written 𦎫 in oracle bone script and bronze script, an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 亯 (“ancestral shrine”) + 羊 (“sheep”). Original meaning uncertain.
Later used to mean “to force; to compel” and came to be written with 攴, making the modern form an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tuːl, *doːn, *tuːn, *tuːns) : phonetic 𦎫 () + semantic 攴 (“hand”).
; “thick; earnest; plentiful; large”

Han compound

㪟
𦎫
𦎧
𣀦
𢼪
𠧈
𠧉


泒

Han char

泒 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水竹女人 (EHVO), four-corner 3213₀, composition ⿰氵瓜)


泜

泜 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水竹心一 (EHPM) or 水竹女戈 (EHVI), four-corner 3214₀, composition ⿰氵氐)

水竹心一 (cangjie-input)
水竹女戈 (cangjie-input)
⿰氵氐 (composition)


泗

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hljids) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 四 (OC *hljids).


泿

(～水) an ancient river in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region


洈

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *krolʔ, *ŋrol) : semantic 氵 (“river”) + phonetic 危 (OC *ŋrol).


沃

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qoːwɢ) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 夭 (OC *qoːwʔ, *qrow, *qrowʔ) – to irrigate with water.


涇

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡeŋʔ, *keːŋ) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 巠 (OC *keːŋ)


涪

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *bɯ) : semantic 氵 + phonetic 咅 (OC *pʰɯʔ, *pʰl'oːs).

(～江) Fu River (a river in Sichuan and Chongqing, China)


cwm

Unadapted borrowing from Welsh cwm (“valley”). Doublet of combe.

ubor

A valley head created through glacial erosion and with a shape similar to an amphitheatre.


cwm

cy-noun

cwm m (plural cymau or cymoedd or cymydd)

cymau (plural)
cymoedd (plural)
cymydd (plural)
cwm (mutation mutation-radical)
gwm (mutation mutation-soft)
nghwm (mutation mutation-nasal)
chwm (mutation mutation-aspirate)

→ English: cwm

From Middle Welsh cwm, from Proto-Brythonic *komm, from Proto-Celtic *kumbā.
See also Breton komm (“trough”), Irish com, coim (“chest cavity”), French combe, English coomb and Old English cumb (“hollow; narrow valley”), Dutch kom (“bowl, basin”), German Kumpf (“vessel”), Ancient Greek κύμβη (kúmbē, “hollow”),Sanskrit कुम्भ (kumbha, “a pot, jug”).


沌

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *donʔ, *duːn, *duːnʔ) : semantic 氵 + phonetic 屯 (OC *duːn, *tun).


浜

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *pama. First attested in the Kojiki of 712 CE.

captured pieces in Go (this term is usually written in kana)


淦

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kɯːm, *kɯːms) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 金 (OC *krɯm).


渜

name of an ancient river in Hebei province


渭

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɢuds) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 胃 (OC *ɢuds)


浦

浦 (canonical)
ura (romanization)
うら (hiragana historical)


洨

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡreːw) : semantic 水 (“river; water”) + phonetic 交 (OC *kreːw).

Han compound

(～水, ～河) Xiao River (a river in Hebei, China)

(～水) (historical) Xiao River (a river in Anhui, China; modern Tuo River)


湋

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɢʷɯl) : semantic 水 (“river”) + phonetic 韋 (OC *ɢʷɯl).


沼

From Old Japanese. Root of the Old Japanese verb ぬる (nuru, “to become loose; to become wet”) and modern Japanese 濡れる (nureru, “to become wet”), adverb ぬるぬる (nurunuru, “loosely; lukewarmly; oozingly”).
May be cognate with Korean 늪 (neup, “swamp, bog, marsh”), Ainu nup (“flat land, plain; fen”), Mongolian нам (nam, “low-lying”), намаг (namag, “swamp, bog, marsh”), норох (norox, “to become wet”).
Generally only used in compounds in modern Japanese.


沼

Appears to be a compound of 沼 (nu, “swamp”) + 間 (ma, “space, area”).

(slang) inescapable pit of addiction to games, etc.