foundry
English
/faʊndɹi/
noun
Definitions
- A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry, etc.
- The act, process, or art of casting metals; found#Etymology 3|founding.
- A semiconductor fabrication plant in the microelectronics industry.
Etymology
Derived from French fonderie root from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (pour).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ǵʰewd-
Gloss
pour
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- confuse English
- foundation English
- foundryman English
- foundrywoman English
- refuse English
- transfuse English
- confundō Latin
- diffūsus Latin
- fundus Latin
- fūsiōnem Latin
- gutta Latin
- infundō Latin
- infusus Latin
- fonderie French
- fondre French
- *ǵʰewd- Proto-Indo-European
- *geutaną Proto-Germanic
- *gut- Proto-Germanic
- *gutō Proto-Germanic
- gutten Middle English
- refunden Middle English
- gusa Old Norse
- guz Old High German
- *hundō Proto-Italic
- *kawte urj-fpr-pro