köken: From Middle High German brunne, from Old High German brunno, from Proto-West Germanic *brunnō, from Proto-Germanic *brunnô, whence also Old English burna, Old Norse brunnr; ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrun- (“a bubbling forth; a fountain, wellspring, source”). The form is Upper German, most Low and Central German dialects using Born (now poetic in the standard language). This southern…
fountain · source, spring · a firework that sends relatively slow sparks in the air which then fall down, very much resembling a fountain
çekim: çoğul fontane
eş: fonte, sorgente, polla
köken: From Late Latin fontāna, from Latin fontānus, from fōns. The meaning of fountain, as an artificial installation, may be partly derived from or influenced by the Old French equivalent.
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kľučь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kljaukjas, from Proto-Indo-European *klewk-yo-s, from *kle(h₂)uk-, an extended form of *(s)kleh₂w- (“hook, key, peg”), whence English clef and close.
köken: From Proto-Common Turkic *bulak. Cognate with Azerbaijani bulaq, Turkish bulak, Uzbek buloq, Uyghur بۇلاق (bulaq), Kumyk булакъ (bulaq), Kazakh бұлақ (būlaq), Southern Altai булак (bulak), Nogai булак (bulak), Bashkir болаҡ (bolaq), Tatar bolaq, Western Yugur pulaq etc. See also Mongolian булаг (bulag).
source · spring (in fountain) · well (the place to get water)
çekim: çoğul bronnen
eş: oorsprong, oorzaak, wel, welput
köken: From earlier born, from Middle Dutch borne, Old Dutch brunno, from Proto-West Germanic *brunnō, from Proto-Germanic *brunnô. The inherited word underwent metathesis in Middle Dutch, but this was undone through influence from German Brunnen.
fountain (artificial water feature, often ornamental)
çekim: çoğul chafarizes
eş: fonte, tanque, chorão
köken: From Arabic صِهْرِيج (ṣihrīj), from Middle Persian. Compare Galician chafariz, Spanish jaraíz (“vat”) and Catalan safareig (“artificial water deposit”).
köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek βρύση (brúsē), from earlier, or Hellenistic Koine Greek βρύσις (brúsis, “bubbling up”) + suffix -ση (-si), formed from βρῡ́ω (brū́ō, “abound”) invoking its later sense of "burst, gush". See also βρύο (vrýo).
aile: βρυσάκι, βρυσομάνα, βρυσούλα, νερό της βρύσης
spring, wellhead (place where water emerges from the ground) · source, fountainhead (collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates) · source, origin (person, place or thing from which something comes or is acquired)
çekim: çoğul lähteet · tamlayan lähteen
zıt: nielu
köken: From Proto-Finnic *läktek (compare Estonian läte, Ingrian lähe, Veps lähte, Võro läteq), equivalent to lähteä (“to leave”) + -e, as in "where the water leaves the ground".