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語源 1

From 中期英語 *soundere, from 古期英語 ġesundra, from Proto-Germanic *sundizô, equivalent to sound +‎ -er (comparative suffix).

形容詞

sounder

1. comparative form of sound: more sound
   • 1961 April, “Talking of Trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 199:

     The Northern Division Traffic Manager has said that there is no present intention of terminating the service, but the hopes previously entertained of expanding it cannot be entertained until it is operating on a sounder economic basis.

語源 2

From 中期英語 soundar, sownere, equivalent to sound +‎ -er.

名詞

sounder (plural sounders)

1. Something or someone who makes a sound.

   a telephone with an electronic sounder

2. An instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
3. (medicine, dated, plural only) A stethoscope.
4. Synonym of sting (“brief musical sequence in television etc.”)

派生語

• depth sounder
• echo sounder
• telegraph sounder

語源 3

From French sonder.

名詞

sounder (plural sounders)

1. (nautical) A device for making soundings at sea.
2. (nautical) A person who takes soundings.
3. (fishing) A fishfinder.

語源 4

Inherited from 中期英語 soundre, from Anglo-Norman soundre, Old Northern French sondre, from a Germanic language, probably 古期英語 sunor (“herd of swine”), from Proto-West Germanic *suniʀu, plural of *sun (“swine, boar”), from Proto-Germanic *sunaz (“boar”), from Proto-Indo-European *sewH- (“to bring forth, bear, give birth”). Cognate with Dutch zeunie (“trough, drinking bowl”).

名詞

sounder (plural sounders)

1. A group of wild boar.
   • 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter II, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):

     It was not only that there were wild boars in it, whose sounders would at this season be furiously rooting about, nor that one of the surviving wolves might be slinking behind any tree, with pale eyes and slavering chops.

2. A young boar.

アナグラム

• undoers, re-sound, Öresund, resound, Duerson, Oresund, enduros, unsored