different between saun vs koomkie

English

Noun

saun (plural sauns)

1. A male elephant that is not part of a herd; a rogue.
   • 1810, Decoy Elephants Catching a Male, in Enos Bronson (editor), Select Reviews of Literature, and Spirit of Foreign Magazines, Volume 3, page 123,

     Though on some occasions the mahouts accompany the koomkies up to the saun, yet it is safer, and generally the most sure and easy mode, for them to dismount in some contiguous cover with their blankets and ropes, leading the koomkies to the saun, towards which they proceed in the most cunning style.

Anagrams

• Anus, NSAU, Naus, UNAs, USAN, USNA, Unas, Usan, anus, añus, naus

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sakna, possibly from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz (“a barn; rick; haystack”), cognate with English stack, Old Norse stakkr (“stack”) and dialectal Swedish stake (“hearth, fireplace”). Possibly also from Proto-Germanic *s?pnaz (“a place of soap”). Cognate with Finnish sauna, Livvi saunu, Livonian s?na and Northern Sami suovdnji (“a pit dug in snow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?u?n/
• Rhymes: -?un

Noun

saun (genitive sauna, partitive sauna)

1. sauna
   1. A heated building or room made for sweating and washing.

   2. The act of using a sauna.

Declension

Derived terms

• saunik
• saunaline
• saunandus
• saunatama
• saunatamine
• saunataja
• saunakütja
• saunakütmine
• saunaminek
• saunaskäija
• saunaskäik

Related terms

• saunaviht
• aurusaun
• leilisaun
• suitsusaun
• veresaun

References

Middle English

Preposition

saun

1. Alternative form of saunz

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English sound.

Noun

saun

1. sound

Volapük

Noun

saun

1. health

English

Alternative forms

• coomkee, khoonkie, koomkee, koonkie

Etymology

From Bengali. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

Noun

koomkie (plural koomkies)

1. A tame female elephant used as a decoy in the capture of wild male elephants.
   • 1810, Decoy Elephants Catching a Male, in Enos Bronson (editor), Select Reviews of Literature, and Spirit of Foreign Magazines, Volume 3, page 123,

     Though on some occasions the mahouts accompany the koomkies up to the saun, yet it is safer, and generally the most sure and easy mode, for them to dismount in some contiguous cover with their blankets and ropes, leading the koomkies to the saun, towards which they proceed in the most cunning style.

   • 1834, Frederic Shoberl, Natural History of Quadrupeds, Volume 1, page 213,

     The drivers remain concealed at a little distance, while the koomkies surround the goondah, as this sort of elephant is called.

   • 1881, Edmund Routledge, Routledge?s Every Boy?s Annual, page 486,

     The hunters rode out on their koomkies, supplied with ropes, and other apparatus, for securing their captives.

   • 1957, The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 112, page 505,

     With the aid of koomkies, the captives were driven in batches of three or four into a circular stockade […]

See also

• saun