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fountainhead

noun

Etymology

From fountain + head.

  1. inherited from *káput✻ — “head”
  2. inherited from *haubudą✻ — “head”
  3. inherited from *haubud✻
  4. inherited from hēafod — “head; top; leader; origin”
  5. inherited from efd
  6. compounded as fountainhead — “fountain + head”

Definitions

  1. A spring that is the source of a river.

  2. An abundant source of knowledge, etc.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fountainhead. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at fountainhead. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at fountainhead

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA