Pfund
German (Berlin)
/pfʊnt/, /fʊnt/
noun
Definitions
- 500 grams, half a kilogram
- any of the English (Anglophone) units of mass or currency called a "pound"
- (colloquial) a hard shot at the goal
Etymology
Inherited from Middle High German pfunt inherited from Old High German pfunt inherited from Proto-Germanic *pundą (weight, pound) derived from Latin pondō (by weight), pondus (weight, pound).
Origin
Latin
pondus
Gloss
weight, pound
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- funt English
- geepound English
- impound English
- kilopound English
- multipound English
- petropound English
- pinfold English
- pound English
- poundable English
- poundage English
- poundal English
- pounder English
- poundkeeper English
- poundmaker English
- poundmaster English
- shorepound English
- tenpounder English
- pauna Finnish
- aequipondium Latin
- pondo Latin
- pondus Latin
- pondō Latin
- -s- German
- Kerl German
- Pfundskerl German
- pfundig German
- font Hungarian
- fonton Hungarian
- fontos Hungarian
- megfontol Hungarian
- фунт Russian
- *pend- Proto-Indo-European
- *pundą Proto-Germanic
- pund Old English
- pound Middle English
- pund Old Norse
- pund Danish
- *pǫdъ Proto-Slavic
- pund Icelandic
- पाउंड Hindi
- पौंड Hindi
- ֆունտ Armenian
- ปอนด์ Thai
- pfunt Old High German
- ponndadh Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- punnd Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- pao Vietnamese
- pfunt Middle High German
- Pond Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- 𐍀𐌿𐌽𐌳 Gothic
- punt Old Dutch
- *punta Proto-Finnic
- পাউণ্ড Assamese
- 磅 Chinese
- paundi Swahili
- pauni Swahili
- 파운드 Korean
- *pondos Proto-Italic
- funt Slovene
- ផោន Central Khmer
- fam Hausa