Where does “sondă” come from?
sondă (Romanian) comes from French sonder, from Middle French sonder, from Old French sonder, from Old French sonde, from Old English sund, from Old Norse sund, from Proto-Germanic sundą, from Proto-Germanic swimmaną — to bend, turn, swing; to be unsteady, move, swim.
sondă (Romanian): probe
Definitions
- probe
Ancestry of “sondă”, step by step
sondă traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French sonder
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | sonder | to probe; to survey and take measurements using a... |
| 2 | Middle French | sonder | — |
| 3 | Old French | sonder | to plumb |
| 4 | Old French | sonde | sounding line |
| 5 | Old English | sund | swimming; sea, water |
| 6 | Old Norse | sund | swimming; strait, sound; swimming, sound |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | sundą | swimming; sound, strait |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | swimmaną | to be unsteady; to swim; float |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | swem(bʰ)- | to bend, turn, swing; to be unsteady, move, swim |