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Translation

well (for water)

Word origin

From Latin puteus, a well or pit. The same word gave French puits and Spanish pozo, and English pit is an early borrowing of it.

Origin
Latin
Root
puteus
English cognates
pit

Examples

.

The women take water from the well.

.

The well in the village is deep and cold.

.

The old well is dry.

Keep apart from , which is a spring rising by itself, and from , a pot. One vowel separates several ordinary words here ( a well, a pot, pato a frying pan, peto a request), so this is a good place to be careful with your vowels. An oil well is a naftoputo, and to sink one is .

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This word is part of lesson 36.