tampon
Polish
noun
Definitions
- (medicine) tampon (plug of cotton or other absorbent material)
Etymology
Borrowed from French tampon derived from Middle French tampion derived from Old French tape (bung, plug, tap) derived from Frankish *tappo (plug, stopper) derived from Proto-Germanic *tappô (plug, tap, peg, stopper).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*tappô
Gloss
plug, tap, peg, stopper
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- tampon English
- Tampon German
- tappo Italian
- tampon Dutch, Flemish
- tampon French
- tamponner French
- tampón Spanish, Castilian
- *tappô Proto-Germanic
- tæppa Old English
- tappen Middle English
- tappi Old Norse
- tape Old French
- tampa Galician
- zapa Galician
- zapón Galician
- zapho Old High German
- tampion Middle French
- *tappa Gothic
- *tappo Old Dutch
- tapar Old Portuguese
- *tappo Frankish
- *tappō Frankish