"sweat" in seven languages
Meaningsweat
Spanish
sudor
/suˈdoɾ/
masc.inherited
French
sueur
/sɥœʁ/
fem.inherited
Italian
sudore
/suˈdore/
masc.inherited
Portuguese
suor
/suˈɔh/
masc.inherited
Romanian
sudoare
/suˈdo̯are/
fem.inherited
Catalan
suor
/suˈo/
fem.inherited
English
sweat
/swɛt/
Indo-European kin · PIE *sweyd-
English → ItaliansweatsudoreDistant cognateRelated only through Indo-European, thousands of years back (night ~ noche).What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
SŪDŌREM‘sweat’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Another -ŌREM noun that French made feminine (la sueur, like la douleur). French lost the d between vowels; Spanish and Italian kept it.