fond
French
noun
Definitions
- back
- bottom
- fund; funding
- foundation
- (figuratively) basics, essence
- background
- (cooking) base
- (music) foundation stop on a pipe organ
Etymology
Inherited from Latin fundus (bottom, deep, farm, piece of land, part, lowest part) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (bottom, earth).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰudʰmḗn
Gloss
bottom, earth
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
底
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Fond du Lac English
- Superfund English
- crowdfund English
- defund English
- fund English
- fundable English
- funder English
- fundholder English
- fundholding English
- fundless English
- fundraise English
- fundraiser English
- fundraising English
- interfund English
- megafund English
- microfund English
- outfund English
- overfund English
- plafond English
- subfund English
- underfund English
- *affundāre Latin
- *exfundorāre Latin
- *infundāre Latin
- fundamentum Latin
- fundulus Latin
- fundus Latin
- Fond German
- Fundus German
- Plafond German
- fondo Italian
- plafond Italian
- plafon, plafond Dutch, Flemish
- plafond Dutch, Flemish
- arrière-fond French
- enfoncement French
- enfoncer French
- enfonceur French
- foncier French
- plafond French
- plafonner French
- plat French
- renfoncer French
- плафон Russian
- фон Russian
- фоновый Russian
- fondo Spanish, Castilian
- fundillo Spanish, Castilian
- fundo Spanish, Castilian
- hondura Spanish, Castilian
- hondón Spanish, Castilian
- plafón Spanish, Castilian
- πύνδαξ Ancient Greek
- *bʰudʰ-(m)n-o Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰudʰ-mn Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰudʰmḗn Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵʰewd- Proto-Indo-European
- fond Norwegian Bokmål
- pensjonsfond Norwegian Bokmål
- *budm- Proto-Germanic
- *budmaz, *butmaz Proto-Germanic
- *bunī Proto-Germanic
- *butmaz Proto-Germanic
- fond Swedish
- fondförvaltare Swedish
- fondförvaltning Swedish
- garantifond Swedish
- kulturfond Swedish
- socialfond Swedish
- utvecklingsfond Swedish
- fond Norwegian Nynorsk
- pensjonsfond Norwegian Nynorsk
- fond Danish
- fond Czech
- fundo Esperanto
- plafono Esperanto
- fond Serbo-Croatian
- fons Catalan, Valencian
- ֆոն Armenian
- fond Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- fund Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- phông Vietnamese
- Fong Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- Plafong Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- fund Albanian
- fondo Old Portuguese
- fundo Old Portuguese
- ფონი Georgian
- *bundos Proto-Celtic
- *bʰudʰnás Proto-Indo-Iranian
- afundu Aromanian
- fundu Aromanian
- fons Occitan
- *funðos Proto-Italic
- fons Romansh
- funs Romansh
- fuond Romansh
- fuonz Romansh
- fùns Romansh
- fondu Asturian
- font Friulian
- fondo Old Spanish
- *budjā Proto-Albanian
- *būðā Proto-Albanian
- fon Haitian, Haitian Creole
- fond Ladin
- *putʰmḗn Proto-Hellenic
- *puntekse urj-fpr-pro
- Bodincus Ancient Ligurian