sonder

Signification

1. to realise random people have a life (the realisation that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own)
2. to probe (test with a probe)
3. to probe (test the depth of something)
4. to probe (test the depth of something)
5. to probe (look carefully around)
6. to probe (ask someone many questions, in order to find something out)
7. to survey and take measurements using a weather balloon
8. to survey (carry out a survey or poll)
9. to dive down

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/sɔ̃.de/

Étymologie

Inherited from Middle French sonder, from Old French sonder (“to plumb”), from sonde (“sounding line”), from Old English sund- (“sounding”), as in sundġierd (“sounding-rod”), sundlīne (“sounding-line, lead”), sundrāp (“sounding-rope, lead”), from Old English sund (“ocean, sea”), from Proto-West Germanic *sund, from Proto-Germanic *sundą (“a swim, body of water, sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *swem(bʰ)- (“to be unsteady, swim”). Cognate with Old Norse sund (“swimming; strait, sound”). More at sound.