fountainhead

English

Etymology

From fountain +‎ head.

Noun

fountainhead (plural fountainheads)

1. (literally) A spring that is the source of a river.
2. (figuratively) An abundant source of knowledge, etc.

Translations

a spring that is the source of a river

• Armenian: աղբերակ (hy) (aġberak)
• 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 (hu)
• Italian: sorgente (it) f, fonte (it) f
• Manx: ard-phersoon m
• Russian: первоисточник (ru) (pervoistočnik)

References

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