culvert
English
noun
Definitions
- A transverse channel under a road or railway for the draining of water.
Etymology
Derived from French couvert (covered), couler (flow) derived from Dutch, Flemish vaart (navigation, sailing, journey, canal, way, trip, shipping, waterway, travel, going, a canal, a trip by boat).
Origin
Dutch (Brabantic)
vaart
Gloss
navigation, sailing, journey, canal, way, trip, shipping, waterway, travel, going, a canal, a trip by boat
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
旅
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- couvert English
- cōlāre Latin
- Kuvert German
- Hemelvaartsdag Dutch, Flemish
- achteruitvaart Dutch, Flemish
- afvaart Dutch, Flemish
- bedevaart Dutch, Flemish
- binnenvaart Dutch, Flemish
- couvert Dutch, Flemish
- dagvaart Dutch, Flemish
- handelsvaart Dutch, Flemish
- hemelvaart Dutch, Flemish
- kaapvaart Dutch, Flemish
- kruisvaart Dutch, Flemish
- luchtvaart Dutch, Flemish
- pleziervaart Dutch, Flemish
- rechtvaardig Dutch, Flemish
- rondvaart Dutch, Flemish
- rotvaart Dutch, Flemish
- ruimtevaart Dutch, Flemish
- scheepvaart Dutch, Flemish
- snuivervaart Dutch, Flemish
- strijdvaardig Dutch, Flemish
- trekvaart Dutch, Flemish
- vaardig Dutch, Flemish
- vaart Dutch, Flemish
- walvisvaart Dutch, Flemish
- welvaart Dutch, Flemish
- zeevaart Dutch, Flemish
- coulage French
- coulement French
- couler French
- couloir French
- couvert French
- découler French
- écouler French
- kulvert Swedish
- covert Old French
- vāert Middle Dutch
- kouver Mauritian Creole