onderbouw

Dutch (Brabantic)

noun
Definitions
  • the foundational part of a construction (e.g. a building) which serves to support that which has been built upon it; as in infrastructure
  • (education) the lower-level classes of a school, e.g. the 1st and 2nd grades of grammar school in the Netherlands, or the first few years of secondary school in both the Netherlands and Flanders

Etymology

Prefix from Dutch, Flemish bouw (construction, building, cultivation, build, engineering discipline, contruction, growth).

Origin

Dutch (Brabantic)

bouw

Gloss

construction, building, cultivation, build, engineering discipline, contruction, growth

Concept
Semantic Field

The house

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

舎

Emoji
🏘️ 🏙️

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