huevo
Spanish
noun
Definitions
- egg
- spawn
- (vulgar) testicle
- (vulgar) guts, balls, courage
- (biology) zygote
- (biology) ovule
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish hueuo inherited from Latin ōvum (egg) inherited from Proto-Italic *ōwom inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (egg).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂ōwyóm
Gloss
egg
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Classifier
Kanji
卵
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- huevo English
- oeuf English
- ovipositor English
- ovist English
- ovum English
- *ōvāre Latin
- ovulum Latin
- ovum Latin
- ōva Latin
- ōvum Latin
- uovo Italian
- œuf French
- ahuevonado Spanish, Castilian
- calentar Spanish, Castilian
- calientahuevos Spanish, Castilian
- huevazo Spanish, Castilian
- huevear Spanish, Castilian
- huevera Spanish, Castilian
- huevero Spanish, Castilian
- huevería Spanish, Castilian
- huevonazo Spanish, Castilian
- huevón Spanish, Castilian
- ovo Spanish, Castilian
- τὰ ᾠά Ancient Greek
- *h₂ōwyóm Proto-Indo-European
- *ajją Proto-Germanic
- *(j)aje Proto-Slavic
- *aje, ȃje, *(j)aje Proto-Slavic
- *ajьce Proto-Slavic
- oef Old French
- ou Catalan, Valencian
- oval Catalan, Valencian
- ou Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- ձու Old Armenian
- ovo Ido
- webera Tagalog
- ve Albanian
- œuf Middle French
- ovo Old Portuguese
- *āuyom Proto-Celtic
- *āwyom Proto-Celtic
- *Hāwyám Proto-Indo-Iranian
- uòu Occitan
- *ōwom Proto-Italic
- iev Romansh
- ov Romansh
- öv Romansh
- güevu Asturian
- ovâ Friulian
- ûf Friulian
- hueuo Old Spanish
- ovo Venetian
- óvo Venetian
- webu Papiamentu
- juf Dalmatian
- guevo Ladino
- dizef Mauritian Creole
- *ōyyón Proto-Hellenic
- dizef Seychellois Creole
- öv Lombard
- weevu' Cahuilla