"bottom (of a container, the sea)" in seven languages
Meaningbottom (of a container, the sea)
Spanish
fondo
/ˈfondo/
masc.inherited
French
fond
/fɔ̃/
masc.inherited
Italian
fondo
/ˈfondo/
masc.inherited
Portuguese
fundo
/ˈfũdu/
masc.inherited
Romanian
fund
/fund/
neut.inherited
Fund is also the everyday word for one's backside.
Catalan
fons
/fons/
masc.inherited
English
bottom
/ˈbɑtəm/
Indo-European kin · PIE *bʰudʰ-
English → Italianbottom (of a container, the sea)fondoDistant cognateRelated only through Indo-European, thousands of years back (night ~ noche). But English has relatives: fund, foundation, fundamental, profound.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
FUNDUM‘bottom, base; a piece of land’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Native bottom and Latin FUNDUS go back to the same Indo-European root. Profound is literally 'forward to the bottom'.
English relatives: fund, foundation, fundamental, profound
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In a sentence
- esLas llaves están en el fondo del bolso.
- frLes clés sont au fond du sac.
- itLe chiavi sono in fondo alla borsa.
- ptAs chaves estão no fundo da bolsa.
- roCheile sunt pe fundul genții.
- caLes claus són al fons de la bossa.
- enThe keys are at the bottom of the bag.
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