wam

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch wamme, wam (“belly; stomach”), from Old Dutch wamba (“belly; body”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly, stomach, abdomen”), from Proto-Indo-European *wamp- (“membrane (of bowels), intestines, womb”). Related to Dutch wambuis (“gambeson”), from wamb (“belly”) + buis (“jacket, cover”). Cognate to English womb, Scots wam, wame (“womb”), German Wamme, Wampe (“paunch, belly”), Danish vom (“belly, paunch, rumen”), Swedish våmb (“belly, stomach, rumen”), Norwegian vomb (“belly”), Icelandic vömb (“belly, abdomen, stomach”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋɑm/

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• Hyphenation: wam
• Rhymes: -ɑm

Noun

wam m or f (plural wammen, diminutive wammetje n)

1. (archaic) a belly
2. (archaic) a stomach
3. a beef dewlap
4. a fish belly cut open

Synonyms

• (belly): buik, pens
• (stomach): maag, pens
• (beef dewlap): runderhalskwab, kossem

Ganglau

Noun

wam

1. arm

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975), page 602

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [wam]

Pronoun

wam

1. dative of wy

Middle English

Pronoun

wam

1. Alternative form of whom (“who, whom”, accusative)

Nafaanra

Noun

wam

1. drought

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vam/

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• Rhymes: -am
• Syllabification: wam

Pronoun

wam

1. dative of wy

Saep

Noun

wam

1. arm

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975), page 602

Yámana

Noun

wam

1. louse