botn
Norwegian
noun-m1
Definitions
- a cirque depression in a mountainside formed by glacial erosion
- bottom
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse botn (floor, ground) inherited from Proto-Germanic *butmaz (ground).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*butmaz
Gloss
ground
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
地
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *bʰudʰmḗn Proto-Indo-European
- hav Norwegian Bokmål
- havbotn Norwegian Bokmål
- *butmaz Proto-Germanic
- botn Norwegian Nynorsk
- bodan Old English
- botm Old English
- botn Old Norse
- bund Danish
- botn Icelandic
- bodam Old High German
- botnur Faroese
- bodom Old Saxon
- butn Old Swedish
- bodem Old Frisian
- botn Old Danish