different between fathom vs und

English

Etymology

From Middle English fathome, fadome, from Old English fæþm, fæþme (“outstretched or encircling arms, embrace, grasp, protection, interior, bosom, lap, breast, womb, fathom, cubit, power, expanse, surface”), from Proto-Germanic *faþmaz (“embrace”), from Proto-Indo-European *pet- (“to spread out, extend”). Cognate with Low German fadem, faem (“a cubit, thread”), Dutch vadem, vaam (“fathom”), German Faden (“thread, filament, fathom”), Danish favn (“embrace, fathom”), Norwegian Bokmål favn (“embrace, fathom”), Swedish famn (“the arms, bosom, embrace”), Icelandic faðmur (“embrace”), Latin pate?, Ancient Greek ????????? (petánnumi), Ancient Greek ??????? (pétalos) [whence English petal].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fæð?m/

Noun

fathom (plural fathoms)

1. (obsolete) Grasp, envelopment, control.
2. (units of measure, now usually nautical) An English unit of length for water depth notionally based upon the width of grown man's outstretched arms but standardized as 6 feet (about 1.8 m).

   Synonyms: brace, (obsolete) stade, (Greek) orguia
3. (units of measure) Various similar units in other systems.
   • 1611, Bible (KJV), Acts 27:28:

     And sounded, and found it twentie fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded againe, and found it fifteene fathoms.

4. (figuratively) Depth of insight, mental reach or scope.

Translations

Verb

fathom (third-person singular simple present fathoms, present participle fathoming, simple past and past participle fathomed)

1. (transitive, archaic) To encircle with outstretched arms, especially to take a measurement; to embrace.
2. (transitive) To measure the depth of, take a sounding of.
3. (transitive, figuratively) To get to the bottom of; to manage to comprehend; understand (a problem etc.).

   Synonyms: fathom out, figure out, puzzle out, work out

Translations

Derived terms

• fathomable
• fathometer
• fathomless
• fathom out
• unfathomable

See also

• deep six

Further reading

• fathom in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fathom in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• fathom at OneLook Dictionary Search
• fathom on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

• vnd (alternative typography) [16^th C.]

Etymology

From Middle English unde (“a wave”), from either the Old French unde or Latin unda (“wave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Noun

und (plural unds)

1. (obsolete, rare) A wave.
2. (heraldry) A billow- or wave-like marking.

Related terms

References

• OED (2nd ed., 1989), “†und”

Anagrams

• DNU, Dun, dun

Estonian

Noun

und

1. partitive singular of uni

German

Alternative forms

• unt, vnd, vnnd, unnd (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle High German unde, from Old High German unti, from Proto-Germanic *andi *anþi, from Proto-Indo-European *h?énti. Compare Dutch en, English and, Danish end.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nt/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /?n/ (colloquially among many speakers)

Conjunction

und

1. (co-ordinating) and
   • 1904, Rudolf Eisler, Wörterbuch der philosophischen Begriffe, Berlin, volume 1, sub verbo Ich, page 446-457:

     "Das »Ich = Ich« ist die ursprünglichste Erkenntnis, die Urquelle alles Denkens [..], es bedeutet »erstens die rein logische Identität von Subject und Object im Acte des reinen Selbstbewußtseins, zweitens die reale metaphysische Identität des setzenden absoluten Ich und des gesetzten begrenzten Ich, und drittens die zeitliche Identität des Ich in zwei rasch aufeinander folgenden Zeitpunkten« [...]."

2. (colloquial) links two nouns, often a person and an activity, in rhetoric questions to express an opposition between them

Usage notes

As seen in the second example, commas are never used before und in enumerations, even where English punctuation requires this. However, commas are used before und in certain complex sentence constructions.

Interjection

und

1. so?, now?, and?

Further reading

• “und” in Duden online
• “und” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) , “und”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Gothic

Romanization

und

1. Romanization of ????????????

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• unjad

Etymology

un +? -d

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?und]
• Hyphenation: und
• Rhymes: -und
• Homophone: Und

Verb

und

1. second-person singular subjunctive present definite of un

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nt/

  Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

From Old Norse und, from Proto-Germanic *wund?.

Noun

und f (genitive singular undar, nominative plural undir)

1. (poetic) wound

Declension

Synonyms

• (wound): sár

Etymology 2

Apocopated form of undir.

Preposition

und

1. (poetic) under

Old Norse

Etymology 1

Shortened form of undir

Preposition

und

1. under

Derived terms

• unz

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *wund? (“wound”).

Noun

und f (genitive undar, plural undir)

1. (poetic) wound

Declension

Related terms

• unda (“to wound”) (undaðr (“wounded”))

Descendants

• Icelandic: und
• Old Swedish: und
• Danish: vunde (influenced by Low German)

References

• und in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Saxon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /und/

Preposition

und (with accusative)

1. until

Conjunction

und

1. until