fountainhead

English

Etymology

fountain +‎ head

Noun

fountainhead (plural fountainheads)

A spring that is the source of a river.
An abundant source of knowledge, etc.

Translations

a spring that is the source of a river

Armenian: աղբերակ (hy) (աղբերակ)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 源頭／源头 (zh) (yuántóu), 水源 (zh) (shuǐyuán)
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: alkulähde (fi)
German: Quelle (de) f
Greek: βρυσομάνα (el) f (vrysomána)
Hungarian: kútfő (hu)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: سەرچاوە‎ (ckb) (serçawe)
Maori: mātāwai

an abundant source of knowledge, etc.

Chinese:
Mandarin: 本源 (zh) (běnyuán)
Finnish: lähde (fi)
German: Ursprung (de) m, Quelle (de) f
Hungarian: kútfő (hu), kútforrás
Italian: sorgente (it) f, fonte (it) f
Manx: ard-phersoon m

References

“fountainhead”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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