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(Anglais)

(declension-1, feminine) wave
(declension-1, feminine, figuratively) a throng, multitude
(declension-1, feminine, poetic) water(s)

Prononcé comme (IPA)

[ˈʊn.da]

Uncertain. Possibly from a collective of Proto-Indo-European *udn-om n (“body of water”) (compare Latvian ūdens (“water”)) reanalysed as a feminine singular and with metathesis of *-dn- to *-nd-, from *wódr̥, *udn- (“water”), attested in Italic as Umbrian 𐌖𐌕𐌖𐌓 (utur, “water”). The resemblance to Proto-Germanic *unþī (“wave”) appears to be coincidental, with at most minor semantic confluence.