Etymograph

English

fountainwise

From fountain + -wise.

Formed from fountain + -wise

Proto-Indo-European *dʰenh₂- ‘to flow’

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Latin fons ‘source, spring’

Latin fontanus ‘bearing a relation to the spring or source’

Late Latin fontana ‘spring, fountain, source’

Old French fontaine

English fountain

Today it means

adv In the manner of a fountain.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / fountainwise