obus
Portuguese
/o.ˈbus/
noun
Definitions
- howitzer
Etymology
Borrowed from French obus (shell) derived from German Haubitze (howitzer) derived from Czech houfnice (catapault, catapult) derived from Old High German houf (heap) derived from *haup derived from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (heap) derived from Proto-Indo-European *koupos (hill).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*koupos
Gloss
hill
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
丘, 岡, 阜
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Haubitze German
- houwitser Dutch, Flemish
- obus Dutch, Flemish
- obus French
- obusier French
- obusite French
- гаубица Russian
- obús Spanish, Castilian
- *koupos Proto-Indo-European
- *haupaz Proto-Germanic
- *hūpô Proto-Germanic
- haubica Polish
- heap Old English
- hēap Old English
- houf Czech
- houfnice Czech
- obús Galician
- houf Old High German
- hūfōn Old High German
- haufniz Middle High German
- hufe Middle High German
- *haup gmw-pro
- *hōp Old Dutch
- hôp Middle Low German
- hōp Middle Low German
- hōp Old Saxon
- hāp Old Frisian
- *kūpa Proto-Albanian