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
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The women take water from the well.
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The well in the village is deep and cold.
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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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