"deaf" in seven languages
Meaningdeaf
Spanish
sordo
/ˈsoɾdo/
inherited
French
sourd
/suʁ/
inherited
fem.: sourde
Italian
sordo
/ˈsordo/
inherited
Portuguese
surdo
/ˈsuhdu/
inherited
Romanian
surd
/surd/
inherited
Catalan
sord
/sort/
inherited
English
deaf
/dɛf/
native English · Old English dēaf
English → ItaliandeafsordoNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: absurd.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
SURDUM‘deaf; muffled’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Short u became o in Spanish and Italian and ou in French. English absurd is the same SURDUS: 'out of tune', deaf to reason.
English relatives: absurd
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