gumi

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡumi]
• Hyphenation: gu‧mi
• Rhymes: -mi

gumi (countable and uncountable, plural gumik)

1. rubber, gum (as a material)
2. clipping of gumiabroncs or autógumi (“tyre, tire”).
3. ellipsis of befőttes gumi (“rubber band, elastic band”)
4. (colloquial) synonym of óvszer (“rubber (US), condom”)
5. (rare, dated) eraser, rubber (GB)

   Synonyms: radír, (rare, dated) radírgumi

• gumi in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

From Old Norse gumi (“a man”, poetic) from the Proto-Germanic *gumô, originally from the Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰm̥mō. Germanic cognates include Old Saxon gumo, Old High German gumo, Norwegian gume, and Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌼𐌰 (guma). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin homo and Baltic *žmo- (Lithuanian žmōgùs).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʏːmɪ/
• Rhymes: -ʏːmɪ

gumi m (genitive singular guma, nominative plural gumar or gumnar)

1. (poetic, in prose) a man
   • Nú er sumar by Steingrímur Thorsteinsson

     Nú er sumar,

     gleðjist gumar,

     gaman er í dag.

     Brosi veröld víða,

     veðurlagsins blíða.

     Eykur yndishag. Eykur yndishag.

• Appears (scarcely) in prose for alliterative purposes. The usual term for a man is maður.

• guma

gumi

1. Rōmaji transcription of グミ

From Proto-Germanic *gumô, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰm̥mō.

gumi m (genitive guma, plural gumar or gumnar)

1. (poetic) a man

• Rarely appears in prose for alliteration:

  Guðs hús ok guma

  the house of God and of men

• brúðgumi (“bridegroom”)
• gumnaspjalli (“friend of men”)
• gumnasættir (“peacemaker”)
• húsgumi (“house master, husband”)

• Danish: brudgom, gom
• Icelandic: gumi
• Norwegian: gume
• Swedish: brudgum

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “gumi”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

From Proto-Bantu *ìkʊ́mì.

gúmí class 5 (plural makúmí class 6)

1. ten

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɡuˈmi/ [ɡʊˈmɪ]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: gu‧mi

gumí (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜋᜒ)

1. weed that grows in cultivated fields and seedbeds

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *gumi (“moustache, beard”). Compare Malay kumis.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɡuˈmi/ [ɡʊˈmɪ], /ˈɡumi/ [ˈɡuː.mɪ]
• Rhymes: -i, -umi
• Syllabification: gu‧mi

gumi or gumí (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜋᜒ) (obsolete)

1. beard

   Synonyms: balbas, bungot, (obsolete) baang

• “gumi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Borrowed from German Gummi.

gumi

1. rubber
2. condom

• tok gumi

• Ankave: gume´