colchón
Spanish
noun
Definitions
- mattress pad on which a person can recline and sleep
- buffer, cushion, padding something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact
- (figurative) nest egg
Etymology
Suffix from Spanish, Castilian colcha.
Origin
Spanish
colcha
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- coxa Latin
- culcita Latin
- culcitra Latin
- coltre Italian
- acolchonar Spanish, Castilian
- colcha Spanish, Castilian
- colchonero Spanish, Castilian
- colchoneta Spanish, Castilian
- *qu̯el- Proto-Indo-European
- colcha Portuguese
- colchoaria Portuguese
- colchão Portuguese
- coilte Old French
- coite Old French
- colche Old French
- culche Old French
- colcha Galician
- colchón Galician
- cócedra Galician
- kutson Cebuano
- cylched Welsh
- kutson Tagalog
- colcha Old Portuguese
- cutra Sicilian
- golchóón Navajo, Navaho
- koltxon Kabuverdianu