gumme

gumme (plural gummes)

1. Obsolete form of gum (“sticky substance”).
   • 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 75:

     The gumme (Myrrhe) is given in Physick and medecines for woemens diseases.

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman gume, from Late Latin gumma, from Latin gummi, cummi, from Ancient Greek κόμμι (kómmi), from Egyptian qmy, qmyt.

• gomme, gome, gume, gum, gom

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡum(ə)/

gumme (plural gummes)

1. A gum or resin; a sticky syrup from a plant, used as scent and in pharmaceuticals.

• gummen

• English: gum
• Scots: gum

• “gǒmme, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 October 2018.

gumme

1. alternative form of gome (“gum”)

gumme

1. alternative form of gummen

• (non-standard since 1938) gumbe

gumme m (definite singular gummen, indefinite plural gummar, definite plural gummane)

1. A yellow-brownish Norwegian spread made from boiled milk, cream, sugar, and sometimes eggs.

• gomme (Bokmål)

• “gumme” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.