gumption

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• /ˈɡʌmpʃən/
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Borrowed from Scots gumption (“common sense, shrewdness; drive, initiative”); further etymology unknown, possibly connected with Middle English gome (“attention, heed”), from Old Norse gaumr (“attention, heed”), from Proto-Germanic *gaumō. English cognates include gaum (“to comprehend, understand”) and goam (“to recognize, see”).

55 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: практичност (praktičnost) — common sense, initiative
• Bulgarian: здрав разум (zdrav razum) — common sense, initiative
• Czech: důvtip — common sense, initiative
• Czech: filip — common sense, initiative
• Czech: chytrost — common sense, initiative
• Dutch: gewiekstheid — common sense, initiative
• German: Grips — common sense, initiative
• German: Vernunft — common sense, initiative
• Italian: iniziativa — common sense, initiative
• Italian: intraprendenza — common sense, initiative
• Italian: arguzia — common sense, initiative
• Italian: capacità — common sense, initiative
• Macedonian: здрав ра́зум (zdrav rázum) — common sense, initiative
• Macedonian: снао́дливост (snaódlivost) — common sense, initiative
• Macedonian: досе́тливост (dosétlivost) — common sense, initiative
• Norwegian Bokmål: bondevett — common sense, initiative
• Norwegian Bokmål: sunn fornuft — common sense, initiative
• Plautdietsch: Väanämungsjeist — common sense, initiative
• Polish: zdrowy rozsądek — common sense, initiative
• Polish: rozsądek — common sense, initiative
• Portuguese: bom senso — common sense, initiative
• Russian: находчивость (naxodčivostʹ) — common sense, initiative
• Serbo-Croatian: dovitljivost — common sense, initiative
• Spanish: caletre — common sense, initiative
• Swedish: sunt förnuft — common sense, initiative
• Bulgarian: предприемчивост (predpriemčivost) — boldness of enterprise
• Chinese: 進取心 /进取心 (jìnqǔxīn) — boldness of enterprise
• Czech: kuráž — boldness of enterprise
• Czech: odvaha — boldness of enterprise
• Dutch: ondernemerszin — boldness of enterprise
• German: Biss — boldness of enterprise
• German: Durchhaltevermögen — boldness of enterprise
• German: Unternehmenssinn — boldness of enterprise
• Macedonian: претприе́мчивост (pretpriémčivost) — boldness of enterprise
• Polish: odwaga — boldness of enterprise
• Polish: inicjatywa — boldness of enterprise
• Portuguese: coragem — boldness of enterprise
• Portuguese: iniciativa — boldness of enterprise
• Serbo-Croatian: poduzetnost — boldness of enterprise
• Spanish: coraje — boldness of enterprise
• Spanish: iniciativa — boldness of enterprise
• Swedish: framåtanda — boldness of enterprise
• Swedish: företagsamhet — boldness of enterprise
• Czech: elán — energy of body and mind
• Dutch: levenslust — energy of body and mind
• German: Enthusiasmus — energy of body and mind
• German: Lebenslust — energy of body and mind
• Macedonian: одушеву́вање (oduševúvanje) — energy of body and mind
• Polish: entuzjazm — energy of body and mind
• Polish: zapał — energy of body and mind
• Portuguese: entusiasmo — energy of body and mind
• Portuguese: iniciativa — energy of body and mind
• Serbo-Croatian: elan — energy of body and mind
• Spanish: entusiasmo — energy of body and mind
• Spanish: iniciativa — energy of body and mind