gué
French
noun
Definitions
- ford crossing
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French gué inherited from Old French gué (ford) derived from Frankish *wad (crossing, ford) inherited from Latin *uadam derived from Proto-Germanic *wadą (ford, shallow water, crossing) derived from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ- (go, pass, cross, walk, wade).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*weh₂dʰ-
Gloss
go, pass, cross, walk, wade
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
歩
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Wade English
- evade English
- invader English
- pervader English
- pervasive English
- *uadam Latin
- evasionem Latin
- invasivus Latin
- invādō Latin
- invāsiōnem Latin
- pervado Latin
- vadum Latin
- vadāre, vadō, vado Latin
- guado Italian
- wad Dutch, Flemish
- wat Dutch, Flemish
- guéable French
- guéer French
- *wadʰom Proto-Indo-European
- *weh₂dʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- vadear Portuguese
- *wadaną Proto-Germanic
- *wadą Proto-Germanic
- *wēdiz Proto-Germanic
- wæd Old English
- *wadlen Middle English
- vað Old Norse
- gué Old French
- gual Catalan, Valencian
- Bao Galician
- vad Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- wat Middle Dutch
- wat Old High German
- gué Middle French
- *wad Old Dutch
- wat Old Dutch
- vao Old Portuguese
- *waðom Proto-Italic
- *wāðō Proto-Italic
- vât Friulian
- *wad Frankish
- *wa(d) Proto-Albanian
- *wadmi Proto-Albanian