Yesterday's Etymon, #1: here is each language's etymon, the word that used all seven letters, and where it comes from (from Wiktionary).
English: D B C E N O U
✦ BOUNCED (from bounce): From Middle English bounsen, bunsen (“to beat, thump”), cognate with Scots bunce, bonce (“to bounce”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps imitative, related to bump, or related to Middle English bonchen (“to pound, beat”) and Dutch bonken (“to bump”). Compare Saterland Frisian bumzje (“to pound, bang, bounce”), West Frisian bûnzje (“to throb, bounce, pulsate”), Dutch bonzen (“to thump, knock, throb, bounce”), German Low German bunsen, bumsen (“to beat, bounce”), German bumsen (“to thud, bang, pound”). [More](/word/bounce)
All 39 words (183 points): bend, bode, bond, bonded, boned, booed, bounced, bound, code, coded, coed, concede, conceded, condo, condone, conned, decode, decoded, deduce, deduced, deed, denounce, denounced, deuce, dodo, done, dubbed, dude, dunce, dune, encoded, ended, need, needed, nodded, node, undo, undone, undue.
Español: L A B C E P U
✦ CULPABLE: its history isn't in the dictionary yet. More
All 32 words (123 points): abuela, alba, alce, allá, aula, bala, baúl, bella, bucle, cable, calcula, calla, calle, célula, club, cuál, culpa, culpable, culpe, cúpula, ella, elle, leal, luce, pala, papel, pelé, pelea, peleé, peluca, placa, place.
Français: P A D E R U X
✦ DRAPEAUX: its history isn't in the dictionary yet. More
All 43 words (210 points): apparu, apparue, dérapé, drap, drapeau, drapeaux, draper, dupe, duper, épée, papa, pape, para, parade, paré, paru, peau, peaux, pépère, perd, perde, perdra, perdre, perdu, perdue, père, peur, peureux, peux, prépare, préparée, préparer, pudeur, pure, purée, rappeur, réapparu, réparé, réparée, réparer, repéré, repérée, repérer.
Which did you find, and which got away? Today's letters are waiting: [play Etymon #2](/games/etymon).
