POSSLQ

c. 1981, Charles Osgood
You live with me, and I with you / And you will be my POSSLQ / I’ll be your friend and so much more / That’s what a POSSLQ is for.

(US Census) Abbreviation of person of the opposite sex sharing living quarters.


abacus

la-noun

abacus m (genitive abacī); second declension

abacī (genitive)
abacus (nominative singular)
abacī (nominative plural)
abacī (genitive singular)
abacōrum (genitive plural)
abacō (dative singular)
abacīs (dative plural)
abacum (accusative singular)
abacōs (accusative plural)
abacō (ablative singular)
abacīs (ablative plural)
abace (singular vocative)
abacī (plural vocative)

→ Catalan: àbac

→ English: abacus

⇒ Esperanto: abako

→ French: abaque

→ Romanian: abac

→ Galician: ábaco

→ German: Abakus

→ Irish: abacas

→ Italian: abaco

→ Malay: abakus

→ Norwegian Bokmål: abakus

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: abakus

→ Portuguese: ábaco

→ Russian: аба́к (abák)

→ Spanish: ábaco

From Ancient Greek ἄβαξ (ábax, “board”).


Haus

From Middle High German hūs, from Old High German hūs.


Haus

de-noun

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Haus n (strong, genitive Hauses, plural Häuser, diminutive Häuschen n or Häuslein n or Häuselein n or Häusle n or Häusel n or Häus'l n or Häusl n or Häusli n or Häuslin n or (rare) Häuselin n or Häuserl n or Hauserl n or (also Ruhrdeutsch) Häusken n or (also Berlinisch) Häuseken n or (esp. 18th ct.) Häusgen n or Häusche n)

Hauses (genitive)
Häuser (plural)
Häuschen (diminutive neuter)
Häuslein (diminutive neuter)
Häuselein (diminutive neuter)
Häusle (diminutive neuter)
Häusel (diminutive neuter)
Häus'l (diminutive neuter)
Häusl (diminutive neuter)
Häusli (diminutive neuter)
Häuslin (diminutive neuter)
Häuselin (diminutive neuter rare)
Häuserl (diminutive neuter)
Hauserl (diminutive neuter)
Häusken (Ruhrdeutsch also diminutive neuter)
Häuseken (Berlinisch also diminutive neuter)
Häusgen (18th-ct. diminutive especially neuter)
Häusche (diminutive neuter)
Haus (nominative singular)
Häuser (definite nominative plural)
Hauses (genitive singular)
Häuser (definite genitive plural)
Haus (dative singular)
Hause (dative singular)
Häusern (dative definite plural)
Haus (accusative singular)
Häuser (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German hūs, from Old High German hūs, from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą.
Cognate with Old Frisian hūs, Low German Hus, Huus, Dutch huis, Icelandic hús, Faroese hús, Danish hus, Norwegian hus, Swedish hus, English house. Doublet of House.

In dem Haus haben wir mal gewohnt.

Mein Großvater starb in dem Haus, wo ich geboren wurde.

My grandfather died in the house where I was born.


Haus

hrx-noun

Haus n (plural Heiser, diminutive Heisje)

Inherited from Central Franconian Haus, from Middle High German hūs, from Old High German hūs, from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-.

etymon

Sie wohne in em alte Haus.


Haus

From Central Franconian Haus, from Middle High German hūs, from Old High German hūs, from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-.


Haus

Heiser (plural)
Haus (nominative singular)
Heiser (definite nominative plural)
Haus (accusative singular)
Heiser (accusative definite plural)
Haus (dative singular)
Heiser (dative definite plural)

From Middle High German and Old High German hūs. Cognate to German Haus.

Die Bump is juscht drei Schritt vum Haus;
Dart krigt mer's Wasser frisch heraus.

1907, “Das Schulhaus an der Krick”, in The Pennsylvania-German: A Popular Magazine, page 335:

Des Haus gans voll mit Gschpuckerei

2011, Peter Fritsch, Pennsylvania Dutch Halloween Scherenschnitte, page 40:

The house [is] full of spookiness (i.e. it is haunted)


Haus

From Middle High German hūs, from Old High German hūs, from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą. Cognate to German Haus.


cod

English: cod

Scots: cod

From Old English codd (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-West Germanic *koddō, from Proto-Germanic *kuddô, from Proto-Indo-European *gewt- (“pouch, sack”), from *gew- (“to bend, bow, arch, vault, curve”). The "pillow" sense is from Old Danish kodde or Old Norse koddi, from the same Proto-Germanic source.

der

A seedpod; a plant's natural casing for its seeds.

A pillow or cushion; a piece of cushioning.

(rare) The gullet, windpipe or esophagus.

(rare) A ball bearing; a metal ball acting to cushion.


robot

head

robot (definite accusative robotu, plural robotlar)

robotu (accusative definite)
robotlar (plural)
robot (nominative singular)
robotlar (nominative plural)
robotu (accusative definite singular)
robotları (accusative definite plural)
robota (dative singular)
robotlara (dative plural)
robotta (locative singular)
robotlarda (locative plural)
robottan (ablative singular)
robotlardan (ablative plural)
robotun (genitive singular)
robotların (genitive plural)

Borrowed from French robot, from Czech robot.

Ellipsis of mutfak robotu (“food processor”).


mortar

en-noun

mortar (countable and uncountable, plural mortars)

→ Indonesian: mortar

From Middle English morter, from Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium. Doublet of mortarium.

The holy hearth! If any earthly and material thing, or rather a divine idea embodied in brick and mortar, might be supposed to possess the permanence of moral truth, it was this.

1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Fire Worship”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:

(uncountable) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.

раство́р

строительный, цементный

(countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.

(countable, military, historical) A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories.

(countable, military) A relatively lightweight, often portable indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate and is designed to lob explosive shells at very steep trajectories.

هَاوُن

lightweight indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate


bunk

Sense of sleeping berth possibly from Scottish English bunker (“seat, bench”), origin is uncertain but possibly Scandinavian.
Compare Old Swedish bunke (“boards used to protect the cargo of a ship”).
See also boarding, flooring and compare bunch.


bunk

en-verb

bunk (third-person singular simple present bunks, present participle bunking, simple past and past participle bunked)

bunks (present singular third-person)
bunking (participle present)
bunked (participle past)
bunked (past)

19th century, of uncertain origin; perhaps from previous "to occupy a bunk" meaning, with connotations of a hurried departure, as if on a ship.

The naughty boys decided to bunk school and visit the comic shop.

(British, India) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off').

бягам от училище

to fail to attend school without permission

"They're moving off," he said. "[…] [T]he funny little man with the beard like a goat is going a different way from everyone else — the gardeners will have to head him off. I don't see Mademoiselle, though. The rest of you had better bunk. […]"

1907, Edith Nesbit, The Enchanted Castle:


abstract

→ Norwegian Bokmål: abstrakt

From Middle English abstract, borrowed from Latin abstractus, perfect passive participle of abstrahō (“draw away”), formed from abs- (“away”) + trahō (“to pull, draw”). The verbal sense is first attested in 1542.

xifra

something that concentrates in itself the qualities of something else

(real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.

abridgment

statement summarizing the important points of a text


bench

→ Hindi: बेंच (beñc)

→ Japanese: ベンチ (benchi)

→ Korean: 벤치 (benchi)

→ Swahili: benchi

→ Urdu: بِنْچ (binc)

From Middle English bench, benk, bynk, from Old English benċ (“bench”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-.
Cognate with Scots benk, bink (“bench”), West Frisian bank (“bench”), Dutch bank (“bench”), German Bank (“bench”), Danish bænk (“bench”), Swedish bänk (“bench”), Icelandic bekkur (“bench”). Doublet of banc, banco, and bank.

эскәмйә

sports: where players sit when not playing

2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii
I had no bench or power rack, so by necessity every exercise I did started with the weights on the floor.

A horizontal padded surface, usually adjustable in height and inclination and often with attached weight rack, used for proper posture during exercise.

بِنْش

weightlifting: horizontal padded surface with a weight rack


throne

From Middle English trone, from Old French trone, from Latin thronus, from Ancient Greek θρόνος (thrónos, “chair, throne”). Superseded earlier seld (“seat, throne”).

der

He approached the throne reverently.

9 After this I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could nūber, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, & tongues, stood before the throne, & before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palmes in their hands:
10 And cryed with a loude voice, saying, Saluation to our God, which sitteth vpon the Throne, and vnto the Lambe.
11 And all the Angels stood round about the Throne, and about the Elders, and the foure beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glorie, and wisedome, and thankesgiuing, and honour, & power, and might be vnto our God for euer & euer, Amen.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 7:9–12:

An impressive seat used by a monarch, often on a raised dais in a throne room and reserved for formal occasions.

Pope Joan, who once occupied the throne of the Vatican, was reputed to be the blackest sorcerer of them all.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 105:

The seat of a bishop in the cathedral-church of his diocese; also, the seat of a pope.

(music) A kind of stool used by drummers.


throne

en-verb

throne (third-person singular simple present thrones, present participle throning, simple past and past participle throned)

thrones (present singular third-person)
throning (participle present)
throned (participle past)
throned (past)

(intransitive, archaic) To be in, or sit upon, a throne; to be placed as if upon a throne.


deuce

From Middle English dewes (“two”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French deus, from Latin duo. The word was used by Ford to describe a model of car they made in 1932 due to it being a two-seater.

(Canada, US, slang) A piece of excrement; number two.

The number two.
A piece of excrement; number two.

Bisexual male, 28, doing a deuce in a segregated housing unit due to positive HIV test result, seeks correspondence from both genders.

1988 December 25, Eric Peterson, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 24, page 14:

(Canada, slang) A two-year prison sentence.

The number two.
A two-year prison sentence.


deuce

Compare Late Latin dusius (“phantom, specter”); Scottish Gaelic taibhs, taibhse (“apparition, ghost”); or from Old French deus (“God”), from Latin deus (compare deity).

Alternative form: Deuce

Love is a bodily infirmity […] which breaks out the deuce knows how or why

1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, Catherine:

To sit, staring at those fixed glazed eyes, in silence for a moment, would play, Scrooge felt, the very deuce with him.

1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:

"Why, Job, you old son of a gun, where the deuce have we got to now - eh?"

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

Still bemused by the inexplicable apparition of Podson on that spot, Bradly growled, "How the dooce did you get here?"

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 65:

(epithet) The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.


in

English: inn

Scots: inn

Any kind of accommodation; particularly:

A holiday home or guesthouse; a house set up as accommodation.

For who so wolde senge a cattes skyn / Thanne wolde the cat wel dwellen in his In

1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Tale of the Wẏf of Bathe”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 62, recto:

For if someone wants to singe a cat’s skin, the cat would rather stay in its house.

A home or house; habitation or housing one lives in.


abaco

From Latin abacus (“counting board”), from Ancient Greek ἄβαξ (ábax, “board”).

abbaco

art of counting; except in the meaning of


four

Louisiana Creole: fou

Inherited from Middle French four, from Old French four, forz, forn, from Latin furnus, from Proto-Italic *fornos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰr̥-nós, from *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”).


bank

From Dutch bank, from Middle Dutch banc, from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

(games, gambling) bank, a player who controls a deposit in some card games or board games and in gambling


bank

Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *banki.


king

Tok Pisin: king

desc

⇒ American Sign Language: K@Shoulder K@Abdomen

→ Burmese: ကင် (kang)

→ Isubu: kinge

→ Japanese: キング (kingu)

→ Korean: 킹 (king)

→ Maori: kingi

→ Marshallese: kiin̄

→ Thai: คิง (king)

From Middle English king, kyng, from Old English cyng, cyning (“king”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuning, from Proto-Germanic *kuningaz, *kunungaz (“king”), equivalent to kin + -ing. Doublet of cyning and knez. Cognate with Scots keeng (“king”), North Frisian köning (“king”), West Frisian kening (“king”), Dutch koning (“king”), Low German Koning, Köning (“king”), German König (“king”), Danish konge (“king”), Norwegian konge, Swedish konung, kung (“king”), Icelandic konungur, kóngur (“king”), Polish ksiądz (“priest”), Russian князь (knjazʹ, “prince”), Old Church Slavonic кънѧѕь (kŭnędzĭ), Romanian chinez, Finnish kuningas (“king”), Estonian kuningas, Ingrian kunigas, Karelian kuninkas, Livvi kuńingas, Ludian kuńingas, Veps kuningaz, Võro kuning and Votic kunikaz. Eclipsed non-native Middle English roy (“king”) (Early Modern English roy), borrowed from Old French roi, rei, rai (“king”).
The verb is inherited from Middle English kyngen, *kingen (“To perform the duties of a king”), itself from the noun king, kyng.

Audio — the king

акрал

a male of a royal family who is the supreme ruler of his nation

in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

Try asking for a king-size bed next time because kings are usually firmer.

2002, Scott W. Donkin, Gerard Meyer, Peak Performance: Body and Mind, page 119:


king

en-verb

king (third-person singular simple present kings, present participle kinging, simple past and past participle kinged)

kings (present singular third-person)
kinging (participle present)
kinged (participle past)
kinged (past)

Audio — the king

The seating arrangement of the temple was the Almanach de Gotha of Congregation Emanu-el. Old Ben Reitman, patriarch among the Jewish settlers of Winnebago, who had come over an immigrant youth, and who now owned hundreds of rich farm acres, besides houses, mills and banks, kinged it from the front seat of the center section.

1917, Edna Ferber, Fanny Herself, page 32:

To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.

If the machine does this, it will lose only one point, and as it is not looking far enough ahead, it cannot see that it has not prevented its opponent from kinging but only postponed the evil day.

1957, Bertram Vivian Bowden, editor, Faster Than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines, page 302:

I was about to make a move that would corner a piece that she was trying to get kinged, but I slid my checker back[…].

1986, Rick DeMarinis, The Burning Women of Far Cry, page 100:

To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.


laundry

en-noun

laundry (countable and uncountable, plural laundries)

dialectal, obsolete, distinct from the cot–caught merger

From Middle English lavendrie, from Old French lavanderie, from Latin lavandaria. See launder.

In our family of five, we have to do the laundry every other day.


was

nl-noun

was m (plural wassen, diminutive wasje n)

wassen (plural)
wasje (diminutive neuter)

Negerhollands: wasch, was

laundry, clothes that need to be washed, or just have been washed


queen

Tok Pisin: kwin

desc

⇒ American Sign Language: G@Shoulder-PalmDown G@Abdomen-PalmDown

→ Burmese: ကွင်း (kwang:)

→ German: Queen

→ Japanese: クイーン (kuīn), クィーン (kwīn)

→ Korean: 퀸 (kwin)

→ Marshallese: kwiin

→ Sikaiana: kuini

→ Spanish: cuina

→ Thai: ควีน (kwiin)

From Middle English quene, queen, cwen, from Old English cwēn (“queen”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwāni, from Proto-Germanic *kwēniz (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷénh₂s (“woman”).
Cognate with Scots queen, wheen (“queen”), Old Saxon quān ("wife"; > Middle Low German quene (“elderly woman”)), Dutch kween (“woman past child-bearing age”), Swedish kvinna (“woman”), Norwegian kvinne (“woman”), Danish kvinde (“woman”), Icelandic kvon (“wife”), Gothic 𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃 (qēns, “wife”), Norwegian dialectal kvån (“wife”). Related to and possibly merged with and/or absorbed some senses of English quean, from Middle English quene, from Old English cwene (“woman; female serf, quean”), see quean. Generally eclipsed non-native Middle English regina (“queen”), borrowed from Latin rēgīna (“queen”) (see Modern English regina). Doublet of quean and gyne.

gloss

"wife"; > Middle Low German <i class="Latn mention" lang="gml">quene</i> (“elderly woman”)

cog

[…] and yet I will not ſay but amongſt duſt there is Pearle found, and in hard rockes Dyamonds of great value, and ſo amongſt many women there are ſome good, as that gracious and glorious Queene of all woman kinde the Virgin Mary the mother of al bliſſe, what wun her honour, but an humble minde and her paines and loue vnto our Sauiour Chriſt.

1620, Thomas Tell-Troth [pseudonym of Joseph Swetnam], The Araignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women: Or the Vanitie of Them, Choose You Whether, London, published 1807, retrieved 2022-01-14:

A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.

(Christianity) The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).

Ad Hoc Softwares has bright hand-blocked floral cotton bed linens from India, including flat full/queen sheets, were $85, now $51; standard pillowcases, were $18 each, now $10.80 […]

1994 March 21, Leonore Fleischer, “Sales & Bargains”, in New York, volume 27, number 12, →ISSN, page 73:

(attributive, originally Canada, US) Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding.


bathroom

en-verb

bathroom (third-person singular simple present bathrooms, present participle bathrooming, simple past and past participle bathroomed)

bathrooms (present singular third-person)
bathrooming (participle present)
bathroomed (participle past)
bathroomed (past)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁-
Proto-Germanic *baþą
Proto-West Germanic *baþ
Old English bæþ
Middle English bath
English bath
Proto-West Germanic *rūm
Old English rūm
Middle English roum
English room
English bathroom
From bath + room. Compare Dutch badkamer (“bathroom”), German Badezimmer (“bathroom”), Swedish badrum (“bathroom”), Faroese baðrúm (“bathroom”).

etymon

(medicine, transitive) To assist a patient with using the toilet and general personal hygiene.


see

English: see

Borrowed from Old French sei, from Latin sedes.


square

→ Welsh: sgwâr

From Middle English square, sqware, squyre; from Old French esquarre, esquerre, (modern French équerre), from Vulgar Latin *exquadra, from Latin ex- + quadro, from quadrus (compare English quad and quadra). Doublet of squad and squadra.
Displaced fēowerecge (fēower nominative + ecg accusative, as in "four-edged").

2006, Macquarie Bank (Australia), press release Macquarie releases Real Estate Market Outlook 2006 - "The World Squared", 21 June 2006 http://www.macquarie.com.au/au/about_macquarie/media_centre/20060621.htm
Just as the basic unit of real estate measurement across the world is the square

2007, Your Estate advertisement for Grindelwald Tasmania http://www.yourestate.com.au/property_12753.php
The house is very large and open and boasts 39 squares of living space plus over 13 squares of decking area on 3 sides and 17 squares of garage and workshop downstairs.

(real estate) A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, i.e. 100 square feet or roughly 9.3 square metres. Used in real estate for the size of a house or its rooms, though progressively being replaced by square metres in metric countries such as Australia.


both

head

both f (genitive singular botha, nominative plural bothanna or botha)

botha (genitive singular)
bothanna (nominative plural)
botha (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
both (indefinite singular)
bothanna (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a bhoth (indefinite singular)
a bhothanna (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
botha (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an bhoth (definite singular)
na bothanna (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
na botha (definite singular)
na mbothanna (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an mboth (definite singular)
don bhoth (definite singular)
leis na bothanna (definite plural)
nominative
both (singular)
botha (plural)
vocative
a bhoth (singular)
a bhotha (plural)
genitive
botha (singular)
both (plural)
dative
nominative (definite)
an bhoth (definite singular)
na botha (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
na botha (definite singular)
na mboth (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an mboth (definite singular)
don bhoth (definite singular)
leis na botha (definite plural)
both
bhoth
mboth

From Old Irish both (“hut, cabin”), from Proto-Celtic *butā (compare Middle Welsh bot (“dwelling”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to be”). Related to English booth.


bedastofed

bedastofed (nominative plural bedastofeds)

bedastofeds (nominative plural)
bedastofed (nominative singular)
bedastofeds (nominative plural)
bedastofeda (genitive singular)
bedastofedas (genitive plural)
bedastofede (dative singular)
bedastofedes (dative plural)
bedastofedi (accusative singular)
bedastofedis (accusative plural)
o bedastofed! (singular vocative)
o bedastofeds! (plural vocative)
bedastofedu (predicative singular)
bedastofedus (plural predicative)


bedateged

bedateged (nominative plural bedategeds)

bedategeds (nominative plural)
bedateged (nominative singular)
bedategeds (nominative plural)
bedategeda (genitive singular)
bedategedas (genitive plural)
bedategede (dative singular)
bedategedes (dative plural)
bedategedi (accusative singular)
bedategedis (accusative plural)
o bedateged! (singular vocative)
o bedategeds! (plural vocative)
bedategedu (predicative singular)
bedategedus (plural predicative)


familia

la-noun

familia f (genitive familiae); first declension

familiae (genitive)
familia (nominative singular)
familiae (nominative plural)
familiae (genitive singular)
familiārum (genitive plural)
familiae (dative singular)
familiīs (dative plural)
familiam (accusative singular)
familiās (accusative plural)
familiā (ablative singular)
familiīs (ablative plural)
familia (singular vocative)
familiae (plural vocative)

Eastern Romance

desc

Aromanian: fumealji, fumealje, fãmealji, fãmealje

Megleno-Romanian: fumeaľă, fămęľă

Romanian: femeie, fămeaiă, fămeie — archaic, fomeie, fimeie — Moldavia (region)

Gallo-Italic

Emilian:

Ligurian: famìggia

Lombard: fameja

Piedmontese: famija

Romagnol: famèja, famì

Rhaeto-Romance

Friulian: famee

Romansch: fumegl, famagl, fameglia

desctree

Venetan: fameja, famégia, famegia
→ Cimbrian: faméeja

Aragonese: familha

Italo-Dalmatian

Corsican: famiglia, famidda, famighja

Dalmatian: famalja

Istriot: fameîa

Italian: famiglia
→ Cimbrian: famildja
→ Maltese: familja
→ Mòcheno: familia
→ Ottoman Turkish: فاملیا
Turkish: familya
→ Armenian: ֆամիլյա (familya)

→ Romansch: famiglia

→ Sardinian: famíglia

Sicilian: famigghia

Borrowings

q

→ Albanian: fëmijë (earlier borrowing from a Vulgar Latin form), familje (later borrowing)

→ Alemannic German: Famiili

→ Asturian: familia

→ Basque: familia

→ Bavarian: Famij, Famülie

desctree

→ Dutch: familie
Afrikaans: familie
Berbice Creole Dutch: famili
Negerhollands: familie, famili
Petjo: fermilie
→ Indonesian: famili
→ Sranan Tongo: famiri
→ Caribbean Javanese: famiri, pamili, pamiri
→ Saramaccan: famíí

→ Dutch Low Saxon: femilie

→ English: familia, family
Jamaican Creole: faambli, fambili
Tok Pisin: famili
Sranan Tongo: famiri
→ Chuukese: famini
→ Malay: famili
→ Maori: whāmere

→ Extremaduran: família

→ Galician: familia

→ German: Familie
→ Danish: familie
→ Kashubian: familëjô
→ Latvian: famīlija
→ Lower Sorbian: familija
→ Norwegian Bokmål: familie
→ Russian: фами́лия (famílija)

→ Hungarian: família

→ Kölsch: Famelisch

→ Macedonian: фамилија (familija)

→ Middle French: famille

French: famille
Haitian Creole: fanmi
→ Luxembourgish: Famill
Iranian Persian: فامیل (fâmil)

desc

→ Norman: fanmil'ye, famîle (continental Normandy), fomille, famille (Guernsey), family (Sark), famille, fomille, famîle (continental Normandy), famille (Guernsey), family (Sark), fanmil'ye (Jersey), family

→ Mirandese: família

→ Old Occitan:

Catalan: família

Occitan: familha

→ Polish: familia

→ Portuguese: família

→ Romani: familija

→ Romanian: familie

→ Carpathian Rusyn: фамилія (famylija)

→ Saterland Frisian: Familie

→ Scots: faimlie, faimily

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: фа̀мӣлија

Latin script: fàmīlija

desctree

→ Spanish: familia
→ Cebuano: pamilya
→ Chamorro: familia
→ Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: familia
→ Ilocano: pamilia
→ Tagalog: pamilya
→ Waray-Waray: pamilya

→ Swahili: familia

→ Swedish: familj

→ Walloon: famile

→ West Frisian: famylje

From Proto-Italic *fameljā (“of the house → household”), from earlier *θameljā.
In view of the semantic shift illustrated in the cognates, famulus (“servant, slave”) (with Oscan 𐌚𐌀𐌌𐌄𐌋 (famel, “servile”)) is probably a backformation from it and not the other way around. From Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁-m-eló-m (“fundament”), from *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”). Cognate with Sanskrit धामन् (dhāman, “order; dwelling-place, temple; family”), Ancient Greek θεμέλιος (themélios, “of the foundation”), θέμις (thémis, “justice, law”).

cog

a household (all persons subject to the control of one man (whether relations, freedmen or slaves))


palace

Palatine Hill
Palatine#Derivative_terms
Pales
palace

From Middle English paleys, from Old French palais, which comes from Latin palātium, from Palātium, in reference to the Palatine (Palatine Hill), one of the seven hills of Rome, where the aristocracy of the Roman Republic—and later, Roman emperors—built large, splendid residences. The name is ultimately either from Etruscan, the same source as Pales (“Pales, the Italic goddess of shepherds, flocks and livestock”), or Latin palus (“stake; enclosure”). Doublet of palazzo and Pfalz.

Official residence of a head of state or other dignitary, especially in a monarchical or imperial governmental system.


hammock

hammock (indefinite nominative singular)

Unadapted borrowing from English hammock. Derived from Spanish hamaca. Ultimately derived from Taíno *hamaka. First attested in 1853.
Doublet of hängmatta (“hammock; suspended bed”).

dbt

A hammock; a canopy swing; a freestanding garden furniture with a suspended couch.


łyżeczka

łyżeczka (nominative singular)
łyżeczki (nominative plural)
łyżeczki (genitive singular)
łyżeczek (genitive plural)
łyżeczce (dative singular)
łyżeczkom (dative plural)
łyżeczkę (accusative singular)
łyżeczki (accusative plural)
łyżeczką (instrumental singular)
łyżeczkami (instrumental plural)
łyżeczce (locative singular)
łyżeczkach (locative plural)
łyżeczko (singular vocative)
łyżeczki (plural vocative)


łyżka

pl-noun

łyżka f (diminutive łyżeczka, augmentative łycha)

łyżeczka (diminutive)
łycha (augmentative)
łyżka (nominative singular)
łyżki (nominative plural)
łyżki (genitive singular)
łyżek (genitive plural)
łyżce (dative singular)
łyżkom (dative plural)
łyżkę (accusative singular)
łyżki (accusative plural)
łyżką (instrumental singular)
łyżkami (instrumental plural)
łyżce (locative singular)
łyżkach (locative plural)
łyżko (singular vocative)
łyżki (plural vocative)

(Middle Polish) device for cleaning one's ear


bai

bai nặm keng


stół

csb-noun

stół m inan (diminutive stolëk, related adjective stołowi)

stolëk (diminutive)
stołowi (adjective)
stół (nominative singular)
stołë (nominative plural)
stołu (genitive singular)
stołów (genitive plural)
stołowi (dative singular)
stołóm (dative plural)
stół (accusative singular)
stołë (accusative plural)
stołama (instrumental singular)
stołama (instrumental plural)
stole (locative singular)
stołach (locative plural)
stół (singular vocative)
stole (singular vocative)
stołë (plural vocative)

table (furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses)


stół

pl-noun

stół m inan (diminutive stolik, related adjective stołowy)

stolik (diminutive)
stołowy (adjective)
stół (nominative singular)
stoły (nominative plural)
stołu (genitive singular)
stołów (genitive plural)
stołowi (dative singular)
stołom (dative plural)
stół (accusative singular)
stoły (accusative plural)
stołem (instrumental singular)
stołami (instrumental plural)
stole (locative singular)
stołach (locative plural)
stole (singular vocative)
stoły (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish stół (“table”).

inh+

table (item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs)

table (furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses)

(literary) table (food and decorations on such an item)

table (furniture or item used for games)


matka

pl-noun

matka f (diminutive mateczka or mateńka or matuchna or (dialectal) matynka or matusia or matuś, augmentative matczysko, related adjective matczyny)

mateczka (diminutive)
mateńka (diminutive)
matuchna (diminutive)
matynka (dialectal diminutive)
matusia (diminutive)
matuś (diminutive)
matczysko (augmentative)
matczyny (adjective)

Inherited from Old Polish matka. By surface analysis, mać + -ka.

(countable, zoology) queen (female insect that begets others)

(countable, botany) mother (plant intended for seedlings)


chair

→ Assamese: চেয়াৰ (sear)

desc

→ Bengali: চেয়ার (ceẏar), চ্যায়ার (cêẏar), চ্যার (cêr) — obsolete

→ Odia: ଚେଆର୍ (ceār), ଚିୟାର୍ (ciyār), ଚିଆର (ciāra)

→ Sylheti: ꠌꠤꠀꠞ (siar)

Tok Pisin: sea, sia

→ Tongan: sea

From Middle English chayer, chaire, chaiere, chaere, chayre, chayere, from Old French chaiere, chaere, from Latin cathedra (“seat”), from Ancient Greek καθέδρα (kathédra), from κατά (katá, “down”) + ἕδρα (hédra, “seat”). Displaced native stool and settle, which now have more specialised senses. Doublet of cathedra and chaise.

All I need to weather a snowstorm is hot coffee, a warm fire, a good book and a comfortable chair.

There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person.

The court will show no mercy; if he gets convicted, it's the chair for him.

"It was me. And I'm glad, damned glad, I didn't croak him. With this slick guy after me, it would be me for the chair."

1920 June 14, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 216, column 2:

'All for a pig of a man who should have gone to the chair.'

1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 8, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 251:

Believe it or not, it only looked like I was trying to send you to the chair.

1949, Isobel Lennart, Holiday Affair, spoken by Carl Davis (Wendell Corey):

"Scoleri Brothers!" "Friends of yours?" "I tried them for murder! Gave them the chair!"

1989 June 16, Ivan Reitman, director, Ghostbusters II:

(informal, with the) Ellipsis of electric chair (“device used for performing execution”).


pupitre

→ Russian: пюпи́тр (pjupítr)

→ Spanish: pupitre
→ Catalan: pupitre

→ Ukrainian: пюпі́тр (pjupítr)

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin pulpitum.


pupitre

→ Catalan: pupitre

Borrowed from French pupitre. Doublet of púlpito.


escritorio

Borrowed from Medieval Latin scrīptōrium, from Latin scrīptōrius (“pertaining to writing”).

der

navegador de escritorio

(computing) desktop, desktop computer (the main graphical user interface of an operating system)


mapa

head

mapa m (genitive singular mapa, nominative plural mapaí)

mapa (genitive singular)
mapaí (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
mapa (indefinite singular)
mapaí (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a mhapa (indefinite singular)
a mhapaí (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an mapa (definite singular)
na mapaí (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an mhapa (definite singular)
dative (definite)
leis an mapa (definite singular)
don mhapa (definite singular)
leis na mapaí (definite plural)
mapa
mhapa


song

fo-noun

song f (genitive singular songar or seingjar, plural seingir or sengur)

songar (genitive singular)
seingjar (genitive singular)
seingir (plural)
sengur (plural)
song (indefinite nominative singular)
songin (definite nominative singular)
seingir (indefinite nominative plural)
sengur (indefinite nominative plural)
seingirnar (definite nominative plural)
sengurnar (definite nominative plural)
song (accusative indefinite singular)
songina (accusative definite singular)
seingir (accusative indefinite plural)
sengur (accusative indefinite plural)
seingirnar (accusative definite plural)
sengurnar (accusative definite plural)
song (dative indefinite singular)
songini (dative definite singular)
seingjum (dative indefinite plural)
seingjunum (dative definite plural)
seingjar (genitive indefinite singular)
songar (genitive indefinite singular)
seingjarrinar (definite genitive singular)
songarinnar (definite genitive singular)
seingja (genitive indefinite plural)
seingjanna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse sæing (“bed”), later sæng.


unit

Formerly unite, a later form of unity; see unity.

The new apartment complex will have 50 units.

(US, Australia, New Zealand) a measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household; an apartment where a group of apartments is contained in one or more multi-storied buildings or a group of dwellings is in one or more single storey buildings, usually arranged around a driveway.


ben

From Old Swedish bēn, from Old Norse bein, from Proto-Germanic *bainą.

the part of a piece furniture on which it stands


dish

en-noun

dish (countable and uncountable, plural dishes)

Tok Pisin: dis

From Middle English dissh, disch, from Old English disċ (“plate; bowl; dish”), from Proto-West Germanic *disk (“table; dish”), from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, disk, and diskos.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots disch (“dish; plate”), Dutch dis (“table”), German Low German Disk, Disch (“table”), German Tisch (“table”), Danish disk (“dish; counter”), Swedish disk (“dish; counter”), Icelandic diskur (“dish; plate”), Finnish tiski (“desk, counter; dish”).

doublet

It's your turn to wash the dishes.

en:in the plural, dirty dishes needing cleaning

(in the plural) Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.

the dish of a wheel

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909

(dated) The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.

He said, "I don't like your chances at the dish [home plate] tonight."

2008, Paul Byrd, Free Byrd: The Power of a Liberated Life, page 4:

At the plate, Graham pounded the dish three times, just like Bubbles did whenever he was up, […]

2009, Loren Long, Phil Bildner, Magic in the Outfield, page 40:

Also, if you end up getting to the baseball, your pitcher needs to be covering home plate, which pitchers occasionally forget to do. However, if the ball stays near the dish and you have a pitcher on the mound who isn't a space-case, you've got a good shot to get the runner out.

2014, Conor Kelley, The Catcher's Handbook, page 87:


bed

→ Chichewa: bedi

→ Chuukese: pet

→ Esperanto: bedo

→ Japanese: ベッド (beddo)

African-American Vernacular, some speakers

From Middle English bed, bedde, from Old English bedd, from Proto-West Germanic *badi, from Proto-Germanic *badją (“resting-place, plot of ground”).
cognates
Cognate with North Frisian baad, beed, Saterland Frisian Bääd, West Frisian bêd, Low German Bedd, Dutch bed, German Bett, Swedish bädd, Icelandic beður, all meaning “bed”.
further possible etymology and cognates
The Proto-Germanic term may in turn be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to dig”) with various theories explaining the development in meaning. If it is, the term is also cognate with Ancient Greek βοθυρος (bothuros, “pit”), Latin fossa (“ditch”), Latvian bedre (“hole”), Welsh bedd (“grave”), Breton bez (“grave”); and probably also Russian бодать (bodatʹ, “to butt, gore”).

bed

flat surface or layer on which something else is to be placed

When camping, he usually makes a bed for the night from hay and a blanket.

A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.

A prepared spot in which to spend the night.

Go to bed!

I had breakfast in bed this morning.

(usually after a preposition) One's place of sleep or rest.

He's been afraid of bed since he saw the scary film.

(uncountable, usually after a preposition) Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.

I read until bed.

(uncountable, usually after a preposition) The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.

I am quite sure that too much bed, if not too much sleep, is prejudicial, though a certain amount is absolutely necessary.

1903, Thomas Stretch Dowse, Lectures on Massage and Electricity in the Treatment of Disease, page 276:

Some prisoners, indeed, are always up before the bell rings — such was my practice — they prefer to grope about in the dark to tossing about in the utter weariness of too much bed.

1907, Jabez Spencer Balfour, My Prison Life, page 181:

This condition is one of the dangers of “too much bed”. The nurse should inspect the legs of each patient daily

1972, James Verney Cable, Principles of Medicine: An Integrated Textbook for Nurses:

George, the eldest son of his second bed.

1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:

Too much bed, not enough rest.

(figurative, uncountable) Sexual activity.

2 beds, 1 bath

My cat often sleeps on my bed.

I keep a glass of water next to my bed when I sleep.

At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them[…].

1762, Charles Johnstone, The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools, volume 2, Dublin: Printed by Dillon Chamberlaine, →OCLC, page 202:


bed

From Dutch bed, from Middle Dutch bedde, from Old Dutch bedde, from Proto-Germanic *badją.


bad

From Dutch bad, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *baþą. The plural baddens was probably formed by analogy with beddens (“beds”). The expected form would have been *baaie, which is already the plural of baai (“bay”). Compare phonetically pad > paaie.


bet

becik (diminutive)
bet (nominative singular)
bety (nominative plural)
beta (genitive singular)
betu (genitive singular)
betów (genitive plural)
betowi (dative singular)
betom (dative plural)
bet (accusative singular)
bety (accusative plural)
betem (instrumental singular)
betami (instrumental plural)
becie (locative singular)
betach (locative plural)
becie (singular vocative)
bety (plural vocative)

(Kuyavia) duvet, eiderdown (quilt filled with feathers)


spun

Spun no de.


spun

spuns (nominative plural)
spun (nominative singular)
spuns (nominative plural)
spuna (genitive singular)
spunas (genitive plural)
spune (dative singular)
spunes (dative plural)
spuni (accusative singular)
spunis (accusative plural)
o spun! (singular vocative)
o spuns! (plural vocative)
spunu (predicative singular)
spunus (plural predicative)


secretary

→ Punjabi: ਸਕੱਤਰ (sakattar)

From Medieval Latin secrētārius (“one entrusted with secrets”), from Latin secrētus (“private, secret”), past participle of secernere (“to separate, set apart”), from se- (“apart”) + cernere (“to separate”).

(US) A type of desk, secretary desk; a secretaire.


söf

söfs (nominative plural)
söf (nominative singular)
söfs (nominative plural)
söfa (genitive singular)
söfas (genitive plural)
söfe (dative singular)
söfes (dative plural)
söfi (accusative singular)
söfis (accusative plural)
o söf! (singular vocative)
o söfs! (plural vocative)
söfu (predicative singular)
söfus (plural predicative)


curtain

Inherited from Middle English curtine, from Old French cortine, from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”), a calque from Ancient Greek.

Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.

1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:

It is realised that the old Pullman standard sleeper, with its convertible "sections", each containing upper and lower berths, and with no greater privacy at night than the curtains drawn along both sides of a middle aisle, has had its day.

1944 November and December, “"Duplex Roomette" Sleeping Cars”, in Railway Magazine, page 324:

A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.

He took so long to shave his head that we arrived 45 minutes after curtain and were denied late entry.

(theater, by extension) The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.

Captain Rense, beleagring the Citie of Errona for us, […] caused a forcible mine to be wrought under a great curtine of the walles […].

(fortifications) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.

tiāroa

In a fortification the main area of a fortified wall.

Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose

1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

(obsolete, derogatory) A flag; an ensign.

The uninterrupted stream of fluid that falls onto a moving substrate in the process of curtain coating.


curtain

en-verb

curtain (third-person singular simple present curtains, present participle curtaining, simple past and past participle curtained)

curtains (present singular third-person)
curtaining (participle present)
curtained (participle past)
curtained (past)

And, after conflict such as was supposed / The wandering prince and Dido once enjoy'd, / When with a happy storm they were surprised / And curtain'd with a counsel-keeping cave, / We may, each wreathed in the other's arms, / Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber;

1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, act II, scene 2:

But poetry in a more restricted sense expresses those arrangements of language, and especially metrical language, which are created by that imperial faculty; whose throne is curtained within the invisible nature of man.

1840, Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry:

He saw a rock that pierced the shifting waters / As they stilled, now curtained by the riding / Of the waves, and leaped to safety on it.

1958, Ovid [Horace Gregory], The Metamorphoses, New York: Viking, Book IV, Perseus, page 115:

But bleakness still curtained the gray horizon.

2003 [2001], A. B. Yehoshua [Hillel Halkin], The Liberated Bride, Harcourt, Part 2, Chapter 17, page 115:

(transitive, figuratively) To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.


teach

head

teach m (genitive singular tí, nominative plural tithe)

tí (genitive singular)
tithe (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
teach (indefinite singular)
tithe (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a theach (indefinite singular)
a thithe (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
tí (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
tigh (in-certain-phrases indefinite singular)
nominative (definite)
an teach (definite singular)
na tithe (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an tí (definite singular)
na dtithe (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an teach (definite singular)
don teach (definite singular)
leis na tithe (definite plural)
teach
theach
dteach

From Old Irish tech, from Proto-Celtic *tegos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tég-os (“cover, roof”). Cognate with English thatch.

inh

tigh

has replaced the nominative in Munster Irish

toigh

has replaced the nominative in East Ulster


spread

en-verb

spread (third-person singular simple present spreads, present participle spreading, simple past and past participle spread)

spreads (present singular third-person)
spreading (participle present)
spread (participle past)
spread (past)

From Middle English spreden, from Old English sprǣdan (“to spread, expand”), from Proto-Germanic *spraidijaną (“to spread”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to strew, sow, sprinkle”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian spreede (“to spread”), West Frisian spriede (“to spread”), North Frisian spriedjen (“to spread”), Dutch spreiden (“to spread”), Low German spreden (“to spread”), German spreiten (“to spread, spread out”), Norwegian spre, spreie (“to spread, disseminate”), Swedish sprida (“to spread”), Latin spernō, spargō, Ancient Greek σπείρω (speírō), Persian سپردن (sepordan, “to deposit”), English spurn.

cog

He spread his newspaper on the table.

(transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.


cushion

en-noun

cushion (countable and uncountable, plural cushions)

→ Cantonese: 咕𠱸 (ku1 seon2), 箍臣

→ Irish: cúisín

→ Japanese: クッション (kusshon)

→ Korean: 쿠션 (kusyeon)

→ Maori: kuihana

From Middle English quysshyn, from later Old French coissin (modern coussin), from Vulgar Latin *coxīnus (“seat pad”), derived from Latin coxa (“hip, thigh”) (with the suffix possibly after Latin pulvīnus (“pillow”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *koḱs- (“joint, limb”).

der

A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support.

Something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact.

Interest coverage is important because it is an indicator of how much cushion a company has in making its interest payments.

2007, Belverd Needles, Marian Powers, Financial Accounting: Media Enhanced, page 826:

If one of the banks has a significant enough cushion of capital and a strong enough balance sheet, then it would not experience a bank run, and the domino effect in panel A would not have occurred.

2013, Stijn Claessens, Kirsten Forbes, International Financial Contagion, page 85:

(figuratively) a sufficient quantity of an intangible object (like points or minutes) to allow for some of those points, for example, to be lost without hurting one's chances for successfully completing an objective.

(finance, countable, uncountable) Money kept in reserve.


throw

From Middle English, from Old English þrāh, þrāg (“space of time, period, while”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Gothic 𐌸𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (þragjan, “to run”).

Downe himselfe he layd
 Vpon the grassie ground, to sleepe a throw;
 The cold earth was his couch, the hard steele his pillow.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:


cut

Borrowed from Middle English [Term?], from Old Northern French cot, cote (“hut, cottage”).

hut, shed; cottage, hovel; pen, coop; cage


drawer

From draw (“to move by pulling”) + -er; compare French tiroir. Attested from the 16th century.

/ˈdɹɔː.ə(ɹ)/

/ˈdɹɔːɹə(ɹ)/

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) A side panel containing supplementary content.


blanket

From Middle English blanket, blonket, blaunket, from Old Northern French blanket, blancet (“white horse", also "white woollen cloth or flannel; a type of jacket”, literally “that which is white”) (whence Modern French blanchet), diminutive of blanc (“white”), of Germanic origin (compare Old English blanca (“white horse”); see more at blank). Furthermore, likely a calque of Old English hwītel (“cloak, mantle”), from Old English hwīt (“white”) + -el (diminutive suffix). Compare also Old Norse hvítill (“a white bed-cover, sheet”).
Compare also blunket, plunket. Displaced native Middle English whytel, from Old English hwītel (whence Modern English whittle (“blanket, cloak, shawl”)).

m+

Another observer offered a less blanket criticism.

1994, Deborah Dash Moore, To the Golden Cities:

Some others appear to be adopting a more blanket approach

2009, Gayle Letherby, Kate Williams, Philip Birch, Sex as Crime, page 57:

Disenchanted with socialism, they unleashed free enterprise (or tried to) and backed it up with a more-or-less blanket endorsement of the old ways.

2010, Jay Cassell, The Best Hunting Stories Ever Told, page 428:

By contrast, any emotional or motivational explanation of autism would seem to predict too blanket a degree of social disinterest.

2013, Eric Schopler, Gary B. Mesibov, Learning and Cognition in Autism, page 187:

The second reason offered for blanket nonprosecutions for crimes committed at the megabanks involves the possibility that such prosecutions could harm the economy.

2017, Mary Kreiner Ramirez, Steven A. Ramirez, The Case for the Corporate Death Penalty, page 207:

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Friday wrote to his counterparts in Delhi, Haryana, Odisha and Rajasthan urging them to reconsider the blanket ban on sale of firecrackers in their respective States.

2021 October 15, “Stalin writes to four States CMs against blanket ban on firecrackers”, in The Hindu:

General; covering or encompassing everything.


castle

→ Tongan: kāsolo

From Middle English castle, castel, from late Old English castel, castell (“a town, village, castle”), borrowed from Late Latin castellum (“small camp, fort”), diminutive of Latin castrum (“camp, fort, citadel, stronghold”). Doublet of cashel, castell, castellum, and château.
Parallel borrowings (from Late Latin or Old French) are Scots castel, castell (“castle”), West Frisian kastiel (“castle”), Dutch kasteel (“castle”), German Kastell (“castle”), Danish kastel (“citadel”), Swedish kastell (“citadel”), Icelandic kastali (“castle”), Welsh castell.
The Middle English word was reinforced by Anglo-Norman/Old Northern French castel, itself from Late Latin castellum (“small camp, fort”) (compare modern French château from Old French chastel). If Latin castrum (“camp, fort, citadel, stronghold”) is from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“hut, shed”), Latin casa (“cottage, hut”) is related. Possibly related also to Gothic 𐌷𐌴𐌸𐌾𐍉 (hēþjō, “chamber”), Old English heaþor (“restraint, confinement, enclosure, prison”). See also casino, cassock.

cog

A large residential building or compound that is fortified and contains many defences; in previous ages often inhabited by a nobleman or king. Also, a house or mansion with some of the architectural features of medieval castles.

The castle was perhaps a figurative name for a close headpiece deduced from its enclosing and defending the head, as a castle did the whole body; or a corruption from the Old French word casquetel, a small or light helmet.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 12:

(dated) Any strong, imposing, and stately palace or mansion.


seep

seebi (genitive)
seepi (partitive)
seep (nominative singular)
seebid (nominative plural)
seep (accusative nominative singular)
seebid (accusative nominative plural)
seebi (accusative genitive singular)
seebid (accusative genitive plural)
seebi (genitive singular)
seepide (genitive plural)
seepi (partitive singular)
seepe (partitive plural)
seepisid (partitive plural)
seepi (illative singular)
seebisse (illative singular)
seepidesse (illative plural)
seebesse (illative plural)
seebis (inessive singular)
seepides (inessive plural)
seebes (inessive plural)
seebist (elative singular)
seepidest (elative plural)
seebest (elative plural)
seebile (allative singular)
seepidele (allative plural)
seebele (allative plural)
seebil (adessive singular)
seepidel (adessive plural)
seebel (adessive plural)
seebilt (ablative singular)
seepidelt (ablative plural)
seebelt (ablative plural)
seebiks (singular translative)
seepideks (plural translative)
seebeks (plural translative)
seebini (singular terminative)
seepideni (plural terminative)
seebina (essive singular)
seepidena (essive plural)
seebita (abessive singular)
seepideta (abessive plural)
seebiga (comitative singular)
seepidega (comitative plural)

From Middle Low German sêpe. First attested in 1632. Doublet of soop.

(chemistry, in the plural) soap salt (metallic salt derived from a fatty acid)


flat

en-adj

flat (comparative flatter, superlative flattest)

flatter (comparative)
flattest (superlative)

bumpy

antonym(s) of “having no variations in altitude”

→ Portuguese: flat

From Middle English flat, a borrowing from Old Norse flatr (compare Norwegian and Swedish flat, Danish flad), from Proto-Germanic *flataz, from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”); akin to Saterland Frisian flot (“smooth”), German Flöz (“a geological layer”), Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús), Latvian plats, Sanskrit प्रथस् (prathas, “extension”). Doublet of plat and pleyt.
The noun is from Middle English flat (“level piece of ground, flat edge of a weapon”), from the adjective.
The algebraic sense was coined by Serre in a 1956 paper, originally as French plat.

inh

The author added a chapter to flesh out the book's flatter characters.

(figurative) Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.

(authorship, figuratively, especially of a character) Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.

(homological algebra, of a module) Such that the tensor product preserves exact sequences. See Flat module on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.


flat

(geometry) A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.

This same publisher notes pricing is a crucial factor in the mass market field of $1, $1.95 and $2.95 "flats."

1970, The Publishers Weekly, volume 197, page 85:

(publishing) A flat, glossy children's book with few pages.

"When sampling the aperture of a telescope, using auto-collimating flats (ACFs) is more economical"

2013 April 1, Spechler et al., “Advanced Dispersed Fringe Sensing Algorithm for Coarse Phasing Segmented Mirror Telescopes”, in NASA Tech Briefs, retrieved 2021-12-27:


plate

→ Maori: pereti

→ Hindi: प्लेट (pleṭ)

From Middle English plate, from Old French plate, from Medieval Latin plata, from Vulgar Latin *plat(t)us, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat, wide”). Compare Spanish plato.

der

There was a close play at the plate.


washer

From Middle English wasshere, wassher, equivalent to wash + -er. Cognate with Dutch wasser, German Wäscher.

A £1.2 million carriage washer has opened at Norwich Crown Point, enabling Greater Anglia to clean its 58 Stadler trains. It is one of two new washers (the other is for '720s' at Southend), […]

2021 January 13, “GA opens new carriage washers”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 15:

Something that washes; especially an appliance such as a washing machine or dishwasher.

A person who washes (especially clothes) for a living; a washerman or washerwoman.


washer

Unclear. First recorded in the 14th century.

A flat annulus, placed beneath a nut or at some joint, to distribute pressure, alleviate friction, provide directionally differentiated friction (e.g. making the nut turn counter-clockwise only with difficulty), or prevent leakage.

blotter

flat annulus to distribute pressure or to alleviate friction


hospital

English: hospital (see there for further descendants)

Scots: hospital

Borrowed from Old French hospital, from Latin hospitālis, hospitāle. Doublet of hostel.

The Knights Hospitaller (a religious order)


vessel

English: vessel

Scots: veshel

Yola: veseal

Borrowed from Old French vaissel, vessel, from Late Latin vāscellum.

A container or vessel; a box for storage:

A vessel; any open container used in the kitchen:

(by extension) A piece of cookware; a container used for cooking.

Blood vessels; the tubes that blood travels in.


mop

en-noun

mop (countable and uncountable, plural mops)

→ Canadian French: moppe

→ German: Mopp

→ Spanish: mopa

From Middle English mappe (also as mappel), perhaps borrowed from Walloon mappe (“napkin”), from Latin mappa (“napkin, cloth”). Believed to be from a Semitic source, variously claimed as Phoenician or Punic (the latter by Quintilian). Compare Modern Hebrew מַפָּה (mapá, “a map; a cloth”) (shortened from מַנְפָּה (manpah, “fluttering banner, streaming cloth”)). Doublet of map, nape, and nappe.

Mop Fairs: Today's annual events are the modern version of the old hiring fairs, where people attended seeking employment or to change it. They are named after the practice of hopefully skilled employees carrying tassels, known as mops, in their buttonholes indicating their occupation. Those who had no trade carried a mop head. At the end of the following week, they could change employers or employees, at what was called the Runaway Mop.

2022, Graham Sutherland, Secret Warwick:

(British, obsolete) A tassel worn in a buttonhole to indicate ones occupation in such a fair.


mop

en-verb

mop (third-person singular simple present mops, present participle mopping, simple past and past participle mopped)

mops (present singular third-person)
mopping (participle present)
mopped (participle past)
mopped (past)

to mop (or scrub) a floor

to mop one's face with a handkerchief

(transitive) To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.

бърша с моп

to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop


mop

mop m inan or (animal-not-person canonical masculine)
mop (nominative singular)
mopy (nominative plural)
mopa (genitive singular)
mopów (genitive plural)
mopowi (dative singular)
mopom (dative plural)
mop (accusative singular)
mopa (accusative singular)
mopy (accusative plural)
mopem (instrumental singular)
mopami (instrumental plural)
mopie (locative singular)
mopach (locative plural)
mopie (singular vocative)
mopy (plural vocative)

mop (implement for washing floors or similar, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle)


knife

Sranan Tongo: nefi

→ Japanese: ナイフ

→ Korean: 나이프 (naipeu)

→ Portuguese: naifa

→ Samoan: naifi

From Middle English knyf, knif, from late Old English cnīf, from Old Norse knífr, from Proto-Germanic *knībaz, from *knīpaną (“to pinch”), Proto-Indo-European *gneybʰ- (compare Lithuanian gnýbti, žnýbti (“to pinch”), gnaibis (“pinching”)). Displaced native Middle English sax (“knife”) from Old English seax; and Middle English coutel, qwetyll (“knife”) from Old French coutel.
The verb knife is attested since the mid 1800s; the variant knive is attested since 1733.

you could cut the atmosphere with a knife

Jeff was bent low over the backboard, working with the knife, a steady sawing motion, his shirt soaked through with sweat.

A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing.

Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.

lem

any blade-like part designed for cutting


box

pt-noun

box (Brazil) m or (Portugal) f (plural boxes)

digital subscriber line
digital subscriber line

electronic equipment used for internet access (component of the digital subscriber line technology)


sofa

→ Assamese: চোফা (süpha)

→ Burmese: ဆိုဖာ (hcuihpa)

→ Cantonese: 梳化 (so¹ faa³⁻²)

→ Hindi: सोफ़ा (sofā)

→ Japanese: ソファ (sofa)

→ Kashubian: zofa

→ Korean: 소파 (sopa) (Canada)

→ Norman: sofa

→ Penang Hokkien: sofa

→ Swahili: sofa

→ Thai: โซฟา (soo-faa)

→ Urdu: صوفہ (sofā)

→ Welsh: soffa

→ Wu: 沙發／沙发 (¹so-faq)

→ Mandarin: 沙發／沙发 (shāfā)

desc

→ Lü: ᦌᦱᧈᦝᦱᧉ (saa¹faa²)

→ Lü: ᦌᦱᧈᦝᦱᧉ (saa¹faa²)

→ Mongolian: шафа (šafa), ᠱᠠᠹᠠ (šafa)

→ Uyghur: سافا (safa)

→ Wutunhua: shafa

→ Zhuang: sahfaz

Borrowed from French sofa, ultimately from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick, covered with rich carpets and cushions and used for sitting”). Cognate with Aramaic צפא/Classical Syriac ܨܦܬܐ (ṣipā’, ṣeppəṯā, “mat, matting”). The word may have entered European languages via Muslim Iberia or through Turkish.

cog

ṣipā’, ṣeppəṯā

His eyes trailed over her feline pose on the sofa, finding her limbs adorable while he tried exasperatedly to extract the truth of licentious revelations from them.

1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 228:

(furniture) An upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people.


sofa

sofà (canonical feminine stress-pattern-2)
sòfos (plural)
sofà (nominative singular)
sòfos (nominative plural)
sòfos (genitive singular)
sòfų (genitive plural)
sòfai (dative singular)
sòfoms (dative plural)
sòfą (accusative singular)
sofàs (accusative plural)
sofà (instrumental singular)
sòfomis (instrumental plural)
sòfoje (locative singular)
sòfose (locative plural)
sòfa (singular vocative)
sòfos (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French sofa or Italian sofà, ultimately from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick”). Compare Russian софа́ (sofá).


sofa

sofaen (definite singular)
sofaer (indefinite plural)
sofaene (definite plural)


sofa

sofaen (definite singular)
sofaer (indefinite plural)
sofaar (indefinite plural)
sofaene (definite plural)
sofaane (definite plural)


sofa

sofka (diminutive)
sofa (nominative singular)
sofy (nominative plural)
sofy (genitive singular)
sof (genitive plural)
sofie (dative singular)
sofom (dative plural)
sofę (accusative singular)
sofy (accusative plural)
sofą (instrumental singular)
sofami (instrumental plural)
sofie (locative singular)
sofach (locative plural)
sofo (singular vocative)
sofy (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French sofa, from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick”), from Aramaic צפא (ṣipā’, “mat”).


house

en-noun

house (countable and uncountable, plural houses or (dialectal) housen or (chiefly humorous) hice)

houses (plural)
housen (dialectal plural)
hice (humorous plural)

Chinese Pidgin English: houso

Nigerian Pidgin: haus

Tok Pisin: haus

Sranan Tongo: oso
→ Dutch: osso

→ Cantonese: house (hau¹ si²)

→ Japanese: ハウス (hausu)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der.?
Proto-Germanic *hūsą
Proto-West Germanic *hūs
Old English hūs
Middle English hous
English house
From Middle English hous, hus, from Old English hūs (“dwelling, shelter, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą (compare Scots hoose, West Frisian hûs, Dutch huis, German Haus, German Low German Huus, Danish hus, Faroese hús, Icelandic hús, Norwegian Bokmål hus, Norwegian Nynorsk hus and Swedish hus), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kews-, from *(s)kewH- (“to cover, hide”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English meson, measoun (“house”), borrowed from Old French maison (“house”). More at hose.
The uncommon plural form housen is from Middle English husen, housen. (The Old English nominative plural was simply hūs.)

huis

debating chamber for government politicians

a house divided against itself cannot stand

it takes a heap of living to make a house a home

it takes a heap o' livin' to make a house a home

it takes a lot of living to make a house a home

the call is coming from inside the house

use the master's tools to dismantle the master's house

Those homeowners who bought too much house, or borrowed against inflated values are now going to be liable for their own poor decisions.

2007 November 6, “When Will the Slump End?”, in Newsweek:

(uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.


凳

→ Khmer: តាំង (tang)

→ Proto-Tai: *taŋᴮ

Lao: ຕັ່ງ (tang)

Thai: ตั่ง (dtàng)

Zhuang: daengq

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tɯːŋs): phonetic 登 (OC *tɯːŋ) + semantic 几 (“table; stool”).

Han compound

ni¹ zoeng¹ dang³ zan¹ hai⁶ hou² m⁴ wan² zan⁶.

呢張凳真係好唔穩陣。

呢张凳真系好唔稳阵。


laundering

en-noun

laundering (countable and uncountable, plural launderings)

The act, or occupation, of one who launders; washing and ironing.


laundress

I tell thee ſhameleſſe girle,
Thou ſhalt be Landreſſe to my waiting maide:

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:


匙

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *dje): phonetic 是 (OC *djeʔ) + semantic 匕 (“spoon”).


匙

From Middle Chinese 匙 (zhiɛ, “spoon”). The goon, so likely the earliest borrowing from Middle Chinese.

香匙

a spoon or scoop used to scoop out incense


匙

From Middle Chinese 匙 (zhiɛ, “spoon”). The kan'on, so a later borrowing. Compare modern Cantonese 匙 (ci⁴), Min Nan 匙 (sî).

鑰匙: a key

from the vague similarity in shape to a spoon, with the bowl of the spoon as the handle of the key


匙

Likely an alteration of the kan'on reading shi: /si/ → /hi/


匙

Originally a compound of 茶 (sa, “tea”, the tōon or Tang reading) + 匙 (ji, “spoon, scoop”). This on'yomi reading for a two-character term was then applied to the single-character 匙 spelling, and re-interpreted as kun'yomi.

a doctor

especially one tending to a high-ranking samurai family

the degree of skill in compounding medicine

匙が回る:: → to be skillful at compounding medicine

used historically when working with medicine

灰匙

a spoon or scoop used to scoop out ashes from the brazier used for tea ceremony

一匙飯: a single scoop of cooked rice

viewed as inadequate and bad luck to eat just this amount, with some superstitions that eating just this would cause one to become a stepmother or stepchild

匙の先より口の先: “not so much the tip of their spoon

as the tip of their tongue” → a pejorative comment about a doctor

stating that they are better at flattery and speaking nicely

than they are at actual medical treatment

私たちは匙でスープを飲む。


匙

匙 (canonical)
sukui (romanization)
sukufi (romanization)
すくひ (hiragana historical)

Alternative spelling of 掬い (sukui, “scoop”), the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 掬う (sukuu, “to scoop”).
Rare. Only found in compounds.


帚

Characters in the same phonetic series (帚) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Pictogram (象形) – a broom with bristles on top and tied handle on the bottom.
In modern form, top now resembles 聿 (“hand”), 肀 (“brush”), 彐, and overall graphically decomposes roughly as 肀 + 冖 + 巾.


廬

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ra): semantic 广 + phonetic 盧 (OC *b·raː).

Han compound

rudimentary lodgings; hut; shack; simple countryside house

(archaic) inn; guesthouse; lodging (for officials)

(historical) hut near a tomb used for morning


廬

廬 (canonical)
io (romanization)
ifo (romanization)
いほ (hiragana historical)

/ipo₁/ → /iɸo/ → /iwo/ → /iho/ → /io/
From Old Japanese. Possibly related to 家 (ie, “house”).


廬

廬 (canonical)
iori (romanization)
ifori (romanization)
いほり (hiragana historical)

/ihori/: *[ipori] → [iɸori] → [iwori] → [iori]. The nominalization of verb 庵る (ioru).

a small hut for hermits and priests; a hermitage


床

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (床):
* → Japanese: 床(しょう) (shō)
* → Korean: 상(床) (sang)

→ Bouyei: xaangz (“bed”)

→ Zhuang: congz (“bed”)

→ Proto-Vietic: *k-ɟəːŋ (“bed”)

Vietnamese: giường

Chut: kəcɨːŋ²

/ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ɑŋ³⁵/

/ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ɑŋ³⁵/

Originally an unorthodox variant of 牀. Now made up of 广 (“house”) + 木 (“tree”), an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) representing a wooden furniture item (a bed) in a house.
Schuessler (2007) suggests that it may be related to Khmer រង (rɔɔng, “to support from below”), Old Mon [script needed] (joṅ, “couch; bedstead”). Compare also Burmese စင် (cang, “platform, stage”) (Luce, 1981).


igloo

igloo (dome-shaped Inuit shelter, constructed of blocks cut from snow)


机

机 (canonical)
tsukue (romanization)
tukue (romanization)
つくえ (hiragana historical)

[t͡sɨ̥kɯ̟e̞]

机の上に本が三冊ある。


桸

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hral, *hlɯl): semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 希 (OC *hlɯl).

Han compound

(dialectal, Northern Min, Southern Min) a ladle


枕

From Old Japanese. First attested in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE. From Proto-Japonic *makura.
Cognates
Cognate with Proto-Ryukyuan *makura, whence Kikai 枕 (makka), Kunigami 枕 (makkā), Miyako 枕 (maffa), Northern Amami Ōshima 枕 (makura), Okinawan 枕 (makkwa), Okinoerabu 枕 (makura), Southern Amami Ōshima 枕 (makra), Tokunoshima 枕 (makkwa), Yaeyama 枕 (maffa), Yonaguni 枕 (magura), and Yoron 枕 (makkura).


櫃

chest, an item of furniture used for storage


爐

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *raː): semantic 火 (“fire”) + phonetic 盧 (OC *b·raː). Originally written 盧, see there for more.


fulcrum

la-noun

fulcrum n (genitive fulcrī); second declension

fulcrī (genitive)
fulcrum (nominative singular)
fulcra (nominative plural)
fulcrī (genitive singular)
fulcrōrum (genitive plural)
fulcrō (dative singular)
fulcrīs (dative plural)
fulcrum (accusative singular)
fulcra (accusative plural)
fulcrō (ablative singular)
fulcrīs (ablative plural)
fulcrum (singular vocative)
fulcra (plural vocative)

Catalan: fulcre

English: fulcrum

French: fulcrum

Italian: fulcro

Portuguese: fulcro

Sicilian: furcru

Spanish: fulcro

[ˈfʊɫ̪krʊ̃ˑ]


煲

A Dictionary of the Chinese Language
Robert Morrison (missionary)
Zhang Taiyan

The earliest attestation is found in Robert Morrison's A Dictionary of the Chinese Language (1815-1823) (Zhang, 2016).
There are various proposals regarding the etymology of the word:
* From Old Chinese:
** From 釜 (OC *baʔ, “pot; cauldron”) (Chan, 1995; Xu, 2002);
** From 鍑 (OC *puɡs, *puɡ, “pot; cauldron”) (Zhang Taiyan's Xin Fangyan);
** From 缶 (OC *puʔ, “earthen jar”) (Pan, 2016);
** From 缹 (OC *puʔ, “to cook”) (Kong, 1933).
* From a word in the language of the natives in Lingnan, recorded in 《北戶錄》 as 褒 (MC paw) (as in 褒牛頭) (Luo, 1960; Huang, 2011).
* From English boil (Zhang, 2016).
* From Hlai ʔbou¹¹ “to cook” (Zhan, 2002).

(chiefly Cantonese) pot; kettle; cauldron (Classifier: 個／个 c)


礤

grater; shredder; grindstone (kitchen implement for grating fruits and vegetables)


盤

/pʰuːn²¹⁻³⁵/

/pʰuːn²¹⁻³⁵/

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *baːn): phonetic 般 (OC *praːn, *paːn, *baːn) + semantic 皿.

Han compound

軟盤／软盘

網盤／网盘

(computing, chiefly Mainland China) disk; hard drive; storage device


簾

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡ·rem): semantic 竹 + phonetic 廉 (OC *ɡ·rem).


罉

/t͡sʰaŋ³³⁻³³⁵/

/t͡sʰaŋ³³⁻³³⁵/

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声): semantic 缶 + phonetic 掌.
From 鐺 (MC tsrhaeng).

(Cantonese) cooking pot with a flat bottom


箸

→ Bengali: হাশি (haśi)

→ Esperanto: haŝio

→ Jeju: 하시 (hasi)

→ Palauan: hasi

→ Portuguese: hashi

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *pasuy (compare Ainu パスイ (pasui)). Possibly related to 嘴 (“beak”) or 端 (“tip”).


garden

Sranan Tongo: dyari

→ Nafaanra: yaadi

From Middle English gardyn, garden, from Anglo-Norman gardin, from Frankish *gardin-, oblique stem of *gardō (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Germanic *gardô (“enclosure, garden, house”), whence also inherited English yard. (compare Old French jart alongside jardin, Medieval Latin gardīnus). Doublet of jardin. Displaced Old English wyrttūn.
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian gard, Low German Goorn, Dutch gaard, gaarde, German Garten, Icelandic garður, French jardin, Spanish jardín, Italian giardino, Sicilian jardinu.

tuin

piece of land outside with flowers and plants

gumno

area behind a barn for fruits and vegetables

a garden party

a garden path

a garden spade

The garden parties of pre-1914 were something to be remembered. Everyone was dressed up to the nines, high-heeled shoes, muslin frocks with blue sashes, large leghorn hats with drooping roses. There were lovely ices […] with every kind of cream cake, of sandwich, of éclair, and peaches, muscat grapes, and nectarines.

1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 5, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.

(attributive) Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.

(cartomancy) The twentieth Lenormand card.

Behind the tangled garden of microphones that had sprouted on the lectern, Goldwater spoke softly and casually about his family.

1965, Charles McDowell, Campaign Fever: The National Folk Festival, from New Hampshire to November, 1964, Morrow, page 11:

Blow on my garden [speaking of her genitalia], so the spices of it may flow out. Let my Beloved come into His garden [her pubic area] and eat His pleasant fruits.

1995, Lee Tyler, Biblical Sexual Morality and What About Pornography? viewed at etext.org on 9 May 2006

N.B. From a commentary on Song of Solomon 4:16, which was written in Hebrew c. 950 BC; book footnotes are shown here within brackets. Many scholars disagree with this Biblical interpretation, which is included as evidence of the word's usage in 1995 rather than the intended meaning of Biblical Hebrew גַּן (gan) in 950 BC.

c. 2004, Hair Care Down There, Inc, The History of Hair Removal viewed at haircaredownthere.com on 9 May 2006 -
Primping and pruning the secret garden might seem like a totally 21st century concept, but the fact is women have gotten into below-the-belt grooming since before the Bronze Age.

(slang) Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.


garden

en-verb

garden (third-person singular simple present gardens, present participle gardening, simple past and past participle gardened)

gardens (present singular third-person)
gardening (participle present)
gardened (participle past)
gardened (past)

I love to garden—this year I'm going to plant some daffodils.

(intransitive, chiefly Canada, US) To grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.

bahçe işi ile/işiyle meşgul olmak/uğraşmak

(intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.


bath

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁-
Proto-Germanic *baþą
Proto-West Germanic *baþ
Old English bæþ
Middle English bath
English bath
From Middle English bath, baþ, from Old English bæþ (“bath”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą (“bath”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Corresponding inherited verbs are beath and bathe.

etymon

barf (non-rhotic, trap–bath split, th-fronting)

The master bath has two sinks.

(real estate, informal) Clipping of bathroom.


bath

en-verb

bath (third-person singular simple present baths, present participle bathing, simple past and past participle bathed)

baths (present singular third-person)
bathing (participle present)
bathed (participle past)
bathed (past)

“Oh, dear no, not me; I never bath, ’tis the cat has been bathing, in a warm sea bath; I’ll tell you how I manage: I bought a large pickle-jar, and so I have it filled every morning with hot sea water, proportionate to the thermometerical heat my finger can bear, and that I stile Tink-a-tink’s bath; in which I immerge him all but his head, for a quarter of an hour; and he looks so pretty, and receives so much benefit, you would be surprised.”

1815, anonymous author, The Observant Pedestrian Mounted, volume 3:

A man's home may be handy to the mine, in which case he would not need to lose the bath, but if he lived any distance away he would bath at the mine.

1912, James Ward, quotee, “Report on the Royal Commission on Mines”, in Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand, Wellington, page 141:

In a flight of fancy, Millot even wanted to create public bath houses alongside the Seine, so young children could bath in the river’s healthful waters.

2007, “Doctors, Regeneration, and the Revolutionary Crucible, 1789-1804”, in Sean M. Quinlan, The Great Nation in Decline (The History of Medicine in Context), Aldershot: Ashgate, →ISBN, page 140:

Parents would bath after all the children had gone to bed or older children sent into the front room.

2017 February 9, “Very Early Spring”, in Jean A. Stockdale, My Spring: Royal Times and Ordinary Lives, Troubador Publishing, →ISBN, page 17:

(intransitive, informal, Commonwealth) To bathe (oneself); to have a bath.


bath

English: bath

Scots: bath

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁-
Proto-Germanic *baþą
Proto-West Germanic *baþ
Old English bæþ
Middle English bath
Inherited from Old English bæþ, from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą.


衾

Swiftly by night we go, carrying our coverlets and sheets. Our lot is not like hers.

The Classic of Poetry, c. 11ᵗʰ – 7ᵗʰ centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

Sùsù xiāozhēng, bào qīn yǔ dāo, shí mìng bù yóu.

肅肅宵征，抱衾與裯，寔命不猶。

肃肃宵征，抱衾与裯，寔命不犹。

My tears under the blanket are like water under ice; they flow constantly day and night, but people do not know.

Geum ri eup yeo bing ha su, irya jang ryu in buji.

衾裏泣如氷下水，日夜長流人不知。

(literary) quilt used to cover a corpse when it is put in a coffin


maison

Inherited from Middle French, from Old French maisun, meson, inherited from Latin mānsiōnem (“abode, home, dwelling”), from maneō (“remain, stay”) (whence also French manoir).
Doublet of mansion, a borrowing.

inh

parler de corde dans la maison d’un pendu


maison

une grande tarte maison

spécialité maison

une engueulade maison

(colloquial, intensifier) first-rate, top-notch


spider

en-noun

spider (countable and uncountable, plural spiders)

[ˈspʌɪ̯ɾə(ɹ)]

From Middle English spiþre, spydyr, spider, spiþer, from Old English spīþra (“spider”), from Proto-West Germanic *spinþrijō, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną (“to spin”). Mostly displaced attercop (“spider, unpleasant person”), now a dialectal term.

Cut slices and lay them in cold water in the spider; boil them up two or three minutes, then pour off the water and set the spider again on the coals and brown the slices on each side.

1846, Mary Hooker Cornelius, The Young Housekeeper's Friend, page 146, recipe 28 “To fry salt pork”

In spider pan or deep skillet set over hot coals, quickly fry a few at a time in deep lard until brown.

2005, Marty Davidson, Grandma Grace's Southern Favorites, recipe for “strawberry coconuts”, Rutledge Hill Press, page 193

2008, Corona Club (San Francisco, California), Corona Club Cook Book, page 202,
Melt ½ the dry sugar in the spider, stirring with knife until all is melted.

(cooking, US, UK, chiefly historical and now dialectal) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.

If you are deep-frying your falafel, use a spider or basket to place them gently into the hot oil, which should be preheated to a temperature of 175°C (330°F).

1996, City and Guilds of London Institute, Food preparation and cooking. Cookery units. Student guide., Stanley Thornes, unit 2ND5, element 2, page 157

Consider investing in a frying basket or a spider for small amounts of fish. A spider looks like a metal web and has a long handle and can lower and raise fish from the hot oil.

2008, Anna Kasabian, David Kasabian, The Wild Fish Cookbook, Creative Publishing International, →ISBN, page 84:

(cooking) Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; a spider skimmer


轎

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (轎):
* → Vietnamese: kiệu (轎)

→ Indonesian: kio (“palanquin”)

→ Thai: เกี้ยว (gîao)

→ Zhuang: giuh

/t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/

/kiːu̯²²⁻³⁵/

/kʰiːu̯²¹⁻³⁵/

/t͡ɕi̯ɒu̯⁴⁵/

/t͡ɕi̯ɒu̯²¹/

/t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/

/kiːu̯²²⁻³⁵/

/kʰiːu̯²¹⁻³⁵/

/t͡ɕi̯ɒu̯⁴⁵/

/t͡ɕi̯ɒu̯²¹/

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡrew, *ɡrews): semantic 車 + phonetic 喬 (OC *krew, *ɡrew).

Han compound

來人啊，備轎！

来人啊，备轿！

sedan chair; palanquin (Classifier: 頂／顶 c)


TV

television (electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound)

television (institution engaged in the preparation and transmission of television programs)

television, television set (electronic device that receives television signals and displays the resulting images on a screen)


TV

(relational, postpositive) televisual; television (electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound)

(relational, postpositive) televisual; television (institution engaged in the preparation and transmission of television programs)

(relational, postpositive) televisual; television, television set (electronic device that receives television signals and displays the resulting images on a screen)


casa

la-noun

casa f (genitive casae); first declension

casae (genitive)
casa (nominative singular)
casae (nominative plural)
casae (genitive singular)
casārum (genitive plural)
casae (dative singular)
casīs (dative plural)
casam (accusative singular)
casās (accusative plural)
casā (ablative singular)
casīs (ablative plural)
casa (singular vocative)
casae (plural vocative)

Eastern Romance:

Aromanian: casã

Istro-Romanian: cåsĕ

Megleno-Romanian: casă

Romanian: casă

Ibero-Romance:

Aragonese: casa

Asturian: casa

Mirandese: casa

Old Galician-Portuguese: casa

Fala: casa

Galician: casa, cas

desctree

Portuguese: casa, caza (obsolete)
Guinea-Bissau Creole: kasa, kaza
Indo-Portuguese: casa
Kabuverdianu: kasa
Karipúna Creole French: kaz
Korlai Creole Portuguese: kadz
Kristang: kaza
Macanese: casa
Papiamentu: kas (partly)

Old Spanish: casa

Spanish: casa
→ Cebuano: kasa
→ English: casa
→ Papiamentu: kas (partly)

Gallo-Italic:

Emilian: chèṡa, cà

Ligurian: câza

Lombard: cà

Piedmontese: ca

Romagnol: ca

Sammarinese: chêsa, ca’

Venetan: caxa, ca’

Gallo-Romance:

Catalan: casa, ca

Occitan: casa, cò

Old French: chiese, chese

French: chez
→ English: chez

⇒ Norman: caisèye, Norman: quieux (preposition), Norman: ciez (Coutance, preposition)

Italo-Dalmatian:

Dalmatian: cuosa

Istriot: casa

Italian: casa, ca’

Sicilian: casa

Rhaeto-Romance:

Friulian: cjase, čhase

Ladin: cèsa, cesa

Romansch: chasa

Sardinian:

càsa

→ Interlingua: casa (and from Italian and Spanish)

Uncertain. Possibly from either Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to link or weave together; chain, net”) (compare catēna (“chain”)), or Proto-Indo-European *ket- (“hut, shed”) (compare Old English heaþor (“restraint, confinement, enclosure, prison”), Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀 (kata, “chamber”), Mazanderani کَت (kat, “wall”)), likely through borrowing from another Indo-European language rather than inheritance due to the presence of the medial -s-. Ultimately may be of substrate or wanderwort origin; more at cot, and see Proto-Uralic *kota.

cog

(Late Latin, Medieval Latin) dwelling, residence, house


鍋

→ Indonesian: nabe

→ Korean: 냄비 (naembi, “pan, saucepan; pot”)

→ Sakizaya: nabi

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⟨nabe₂⟩ → */naⁿbe/ → /nabe/
From Old Japanese, first cited in the Nihon Shoki of 720. In turn, reconstructed as Proto-Japonic *nanpay.
Originally a compound of Old Japanese elements 肴 (na, “small snack, hors d'oeuvre”) + 瓮 (pe, modern he, “a pot or pan for holding food or beverages”). The he changes to be as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

compound

⇒ 鍋料理 (nabe ryōri)

⇒ 鍋物 (nabemono)

short for 鍋料理 (nabe ryōri, literally “pot + cooking”) or 鍋物 (nabemono, literally “pot + thing”), a dish where everything is cooked together in a nabe; compare English hot pot or hotdish


鋪

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pʰaː, *pʰaːs, *pʰa): semantic 金 (“gold; metal”) + phonetic 甫 (OC *paʔ).


wok

The 'wok' is an efficient, all-purpose metal cooking vessel used by every housewife in China. It has two handles and is shaped like a shallow cone.

1977, Marguerite Fawdry, Chinese Childhood, →ISBN, page 86:

(cooking) A large, round-bottomed cooking pan used in East Asian cooking.


wok

wok (nominative singular)
woki (nominative plural)
woka (genitive singular)
woku (genitive singular)
woków (genitive plural)
wokowi (dative singular)
wokom (dative plural)
wok (accusative singular)
woki (accusative plural)
wokiem (instrumental singular)
wokami (instrumental plural)
woku (locative singular)
wokach (locative plural)
woku (singular vocative)
woki (plural vocative)

Orthographic borrowing from English wok, ultimately from Cantonese 鑊／镬 (wok6).


launderer

/ˈlɔːndəɹə(ɹ)/

[...] the Westminster City Council has arranged with a large firm of launderers to wash blankets, sheets, pillow cases, and counterpanes, at low standard prices, and to return them the same day.

1941 September, Charles E. Lee, “Sheltering in London Tube Stations”, in Railway Magazine, page 389:

One who engages in the business of laundering.

blanquejador

one who engages in the business of laundering


googolplex

Columbia University
Edward Kasner
Mathematics and the Imagination

From googol + -plex, coined by American mathematician Milton Sirotta in 1920 who was then the young nephew of mathematician Edward Kasner. First published and defined in the book Mathematics and the Imagination (1940).

coin

To a mathematician, a googolplex is the figure 1 followed by a googol of zeroes (a googol being the figure 1 followed by a mere 100 zeroes). To a real-estate man, it's one infinitesimal parcel of a plot of land.

1962, Newsweek: The International Newsmagazine, volume 60, New York, N.Y.: Newsweek LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 54:

Competition among bidders eventually resulted in the discovery of the "Googolplex," a quantity supposedly as near to nothing as possible—one over one with countless zeros [as the size of the portion of land the bidder would accept as security for a tax lien]. This, however, was not the limit of minuteness. The "Googolplex of a Googolplex," or "Gee Gee" for short, became the common bid in the sale of City of Miami tax certificates. There has apparently been no authoritative determination of the effect of an outstanding Miami tax certificate […]

1976, Ralph E. Boyer, Florida Real Estate Transactions, New York, N.Y.: Matthew Bender & Co., →OCLC, pages 930–931:

(US, real estate, nonstandard, rare) An infinitesimally small portion of land, defined for legal purposes.


tool

tooli (genitive)
tooli (partitive)
tool (nominative singular)
toolid (nominative plural)
tool (accusative nominative singular)
toolid (accusative nominative plural)
tooli (accusative genitive singular)
toolid (accusative genitive plural)
tooli (genitive singular)
toolide (genitive plural)
tooli (partitive singular)
toole (partitive plural)
toolisid (partitive plural)
tooli (illative singular)
toolisse (illative singular)
toolidesse (illative plural)
toolesse (illative plural)
toolis (inessive singular)
toolides (inessive plural)
tooles (inessive plural)
toolist (elative singular)
toolidest (elative plural)
toolest (elative plural)
toolile (allative singular)
toolidele (allative plural)
toolele (allative plural)
toolil (adessive singular)
toolidel (adessive plural)
toolel (adessive plural)
toolilt (ablative singular)
toolidelt (ablative plural)
toolelt (ablative plural)
tooliks (singular translative)
toolideks (plural translative)
tooleks (plural translative)
toolini (singular terminative)
toolideni (plural terminative)
toolina (essive singular)
toolidena (essive plural)
toolita (abessive singular)
toolideta (abessive plural)
tooliga (comitative singular)
toolidega (comitative plural)

From Middle Low German stôl, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stōlaz.

Siis läks kogu ta vallasvara oksjonile ning mõni siiasiginenud tool, laud, voodi, kapp ja sööginõud olid nüüd seaduslikult naise-ema omad.

1968, Peet Vallak, Tuuled ümber maja: Novellivalimik, page 200:

Then all his personal property was put up for auction and any chair, table, bed, or dishes he had taken possession now belonged legitimately to his mother-in-law.

A seat with four legs and a backrest for one person.


pot

From Middle English pot, potte, from Old English pott (“pot”) and Old French pot (“pot”) (probably from Frankish *pott); both Old English and Frankish from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”), from Proto-Indo-European *budnós (“a type of vessel”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pot (“pot”), Dutch pot (“pot”), German Low German Pott (“pot”), German Pott (“pot”), Swedish potta (“chamber pot”), Icelandic pottur (“tub, pot”), Old Armenian պոյտն (poytn, “pot, earthen pot”). Also, Old Norse pottr (“pot, tub, basin”).
The sense of ruin or deterioration was originally a general allusion to "being chopped up and tossed in a (normally fiery) pot, like a piece of meat" (i.e. to get wasted or done with (by someone)). The 'clean' slang term which was used in reference to toilet rooms and lavatories apparently derives from English chamberpots, although now usually encountered as potty in the context of children's toilet training.

pussitus

cue sports: act of causing a ball to fall into a pocket

not have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of

A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food.


pot

en-verb

pot (third-person singular simple present pots, present participle potting, simple past and past participle potted)

pots (present singular third-person)
potting (participle present)
potted (participle past)
potted (past)

Ideally the best Ideally the best way of tackling the problem of toilet training, is to 'pot' your child at set intervals when he is at home, even though he may no longer be a baby, thus establishing a regular routine instead of one at odd intervals.

1975, Nancie R. Finnie, Handling the Young Cerebral Palsied Child, →ISBN, page 75:

If you leave out this “catching" stage altogether and start proper toilet training at, say, eighteen months you will only have to pot your baby about 2000 times for the same effect.

1978, Penelope Leach, Your Baby & Child from Birth to Age Five, →ISBN, page 225:

Do not make the mistake of potting your baby as early as possible, but wait until she gives the signal that she is aware that puddles are somehow to do with her.

2004, Joan Gomez, Coping with Incontinence, →ISBN, page 33:

Of course, if at any stage your child takes a violent dislike to the pot, then I would put it away for a few weeks and then try again, but if the pot is very comfortable, your attitude is calm and you don't over-pot your child (put him on the pot too often or talk about the pot too much), this shouldn't happen.

2012, Nanny Smith, Nina Grunfeld, Nanny Knows Best: Successful Potty Training, →ISBN:

(transitive, British) To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.


pot

English: pot

Scots: pott, pat

From Old English pott and Old French pot, both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *puttaz, from Proto-Indo-European *budnós.

A pot; a circular receptacle or vessel:
A cookpot (a pot used for cooking in)


lava

lava (nominative singular)
lavy (nominative plural)
lavy (genitive singular)
lav (genitive plural)
lavě (dative singular)
lavám (dative plural)
lavu (accusative singular)
lavy (accusative plural)
lavo (singular vocative)
lavy (plural vocative)
lavě (locative singular)
lavách (locative plural)
lavou (instrumental singular)
lavami (instrumental plural)

(dialectal) Alternative form of lavice (“bench”)


fork

Sranan Tongo: forku

→ Dutch: fork

→ Japanese: フォーク (fōku)

→ Kannada: ಫೋರ್ಕ್ (phōrk)

→ Korean: 포크 (pokeu)

→ Maori: paoka

→ Tamil: போர்க் (pōrk)

→ Telugu: ఫోర్క్ (phōrk)

From Middle English forke (“digging fork”), from Old English force, forca (“forked instrument used to torture”), from Proto-West Germanic *furkō (“fork”), from Latin furca (“pitchfork, forked stake; gallows, beam, stake, support post, yoke”), of uncertain origin. The Middle English word was later reinforced by Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French forque (= Old French forche whence French fourche), also from the Latin. Cognate also with North Frisian forck (“fork”), Dutch vork (“fork”), Danish fork (“fork”), German Forke (“pitchfork”). Displaced native gafol, ġeafel, ġeafle (“fork”), from Old English.
In its primary sense of “fork”, Latin furca appears to be derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerk(ʷ)-, *ǵʰerg(ʷ)- (“fork”), although the development of the -c- is difficult to explain. In other senses this derivation is unlikely. For these, perhaps it is connected to Proto-Germanic *furkaz, *firkalaz (“stake, stick, pole, post”), from Proto-Indo-European *perg- (“pole, post”). If so, this would relate the word to Old English forclas pl (“bolt”), Old Saxon ferkal (“lock, bolt, bar”), Old Norse forkr (“pole, staff, stick”), Norwegian fork (“stick, bat”), Swedish fork (“pole”).

tienhaara

figurative: point in time of making a decision

afsplitsing

computer science: splitting of a process

odnož

computer science: copying and separately developing a project

bifurcació

computer science: a separately developed project based upon a copy of an existing project

a three-prong spear somewhat resembling a pitchfork

(figuratively, decision-making) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.

(metonymically) Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.


パン

(cooking) a pan (flat vessel used for cooking)


insula

la-noun

īnsula f (genitive īnsulae); first declension

īnsula (canonical feminine)
īnsulae (genitive)
īnsula (nominative singular)
īnsulae (nominative plural)
īnsulae (genitive singular)
īnsulārum (genitive plural)
īnsulae (dative singular)
īnsulīs (dative plural)
īnsulam (accusative singular)
īnsulās (accusative plural)
īnsulā (ablative singular)
īnsulīs (ablative plural)
īnsula (singular vocative)
īnsulae (plural vocative)

desctree

Old Galician-Portuguese: inssoa, insoa, insua
Galician: insua
Portuguese: ínsua

Rhaeto-Romance:

Romansch: insla

Corsican: isula

Emilian: îsla

Franco-Provençal: ila

Italian: isola

Lombard: isla

Navarro-Aragonese:

Aragonese: isla

Old French: isle
Middle French: isle
French: île (see there for further descendants)
Norman: île
Walloon: iye
→ Middle English: yle, ile
English: isle

Neapolitan: isule

Old Occitan: illa, ilha, isla

Occitan: iscla, illa

Old Catalan: illa

Catalan: illa

→ Old Galician-Portuguese: illa, ilha
Galician: illa
Portuguese: ilha (see there for further descendants)
→ Leonese: illa
→ Mirandese: ilha

Old Spanish: isla

Ladino: ísla, ízla

Spanish: isla (see there for further descendants)

→ Asturian: islla, isla

→ Extremaduran: isla

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→ Old Galician-Portuguese: ysla, yslla, yslha

Piedmontese: isla

Rhaeto-Romance:

Friulian: isule, ìsule

Sardinian: isula

Sicilian: ìsula

Venetan: ixoła, ixola

→ Albanian: ishull

→ English: insula (learned)

→ Proto-West Germanic: *insulā (see there for further descendants)

→ Portuguese: ínsula

→ Romanian: insulă

→ Spanish: ínsula

From Proto-Italic *enselā, of uncertain origin. The relation to similar forms such as Ancient Greek νῆσος (nêsos, “island”) and Proto-Celtic *enistī (“island”) (whence Breton enez, Irish inis and Welsh ynys) is unclear.
Pokorny (1959) tentatively connects it to salum (“the sea”): he posits ellipsis from terra in salō (“land in the sea”) to in (“in”) + salō, invoking the similar Ancient Greek word ἔναλος (énalos, “maritime”). De Vaan considers this derivation phonetically solid, though semantically vague.

insula, a residential or apartment block (usually for the lower class), tenement, apartment building


Tisch

de-noun

Tisch m (strong, genitive Tisches or Tischs, plural Tische, diminutive Tischchen n or Tischlein n)

Tisches (genitive)
Tischs (genitive)
Tische (plural)
Tischchen (diminutive neuter)
Tischlein (diminutive neuter)
Tisch (nominative singular)
Tische (definite nominative plural)
Tisches (genitive singular)
Tischs (genitive singular)
Tische (definite genitive plural)
Tisch (dative singular)
Tische (dative singular)
Tischen (dative definite plural)
Tisch (accusative singular)
Tische (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German tisch, from Old High German tisc, from Proto-West Germanic *disk (“dish”).

Kommt, der Tisch ist gedeckt!

table (a piece of furniture with a relatively deep surface at roughly waist or knee level); specific uses include:

Legen amerikanische Chefs wirklich die Füße auf den Tisch?

Do American bosses really put their feet on the desk?

bench, workbench (table at which manual work is done)


heater

→ Japanese: ヒーター (hītā)

Emmy went on a heater in Las Vegas and came back six thousand dollars richer.

(gambling, slang) An extended winning streak.

(horse racing) A dead heat; a race in which two or more competitors reach the finish line simultaneously.