pantano
/panˈtano/ · B1 · noun · m
swamp
🐸 Sounds like pants-on-o: cross a swamp with your pants on and they get soaked
The stress falls on TA: pan-TA-no. In Spain, pantano also commonly means a man-made reservoir behind a dam, so you will see it on road signs near lakes. Likely from an old pre-Roman word for wet, muddy ground.