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# {{alternative form of|enm|wombe}}
# {{alternative form of|enm|wombe}}

==Old English==

===Noun===
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# {{alternative form of|ang|wamb}}

Revision as of 10:03, 11 July 2024

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English wombe, wambe, from Old English womb, wamb (“belly, stomach; bowels; heart; womb; hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic *wambu, from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly, stomach, abdomen”).[1] Cognate with Scots wam, wame (“womb”), Dutch wam (“dewlap of beef; belly of a fish”), German Wamme, Wampe (“paunch, belly”), Danish vom (“belly, paunch, rumen”), Swedish våmb (“belly, stomach, rumen”), Norwegian vom (“rumen”), Icelandic vömb (“belly, abdomen, stomach”), Old Welsh gumbelauc (“womb”), Breton gwamm (“woman, wife”), Sanskrit वपा (vapā́, “the skin or membrane lining the intestines or parts of the viscera, the caul or omentum”). Superseded non-native Middle English mater, matere (“womb”) and matris, matrice (“womb”) borrowed from Latin māter (“womb”) and Old French matrice (“womb”), respectively.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wuːm/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -uːm

Nomen

womb (plural wombs)

  1. (anatomy) In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus. [from 8th c.]
    • 1971, Marc Bolan (lyrics and music), “Cosmic Dancer”, in Electric Warrior, performed by T. Rex:
      I danced myself right out the womb / Is it strange to dance so soon?
  2. (obsolete) The abdomen oder stomach. [8th–17th c.]
    • 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
      And his hede, hym semed,was enamyled with asure, and his shuldyrs shone as the golde, and his wombe was lyke mayles of a merveylous hew […].
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  3. (obsolete) The stomach of a person or creature. [8th–18th c.]
  4. (figuratively) A place where something is made or formed. [from 15th c.]
  5. Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.

Synonyms

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Translations

Verb

womb (third-person singular simple present wombs, present participle wombing, simple past and past participle wombed)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed oder hold in secret.

References

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “womb”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Middle English

Nomen

womb

  1. Alternative form of wombe

Old English

Nomen

womb f

  1. Alternative form of wamb
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