umb
Translingual
Etymology
Clipping of English Umbundu or Umbundu úmbúndú.
Symbol
umb
See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Umbundu terms
Albanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Uncertain. Possibilities include:
- Borrowed from Vulgar Latin, from the nominative of Latin vōmis, vōmeris (“ploughshare”),[1][2] though the phonetical evolution is not regular.[3]
- Borrowed from Vulgar Latin, from Latin humus (“earth, soil”),[3] though it is difficult to reconcile semantically.
In both cases, the final /b/ would be unetymological.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈumb/
- Rhymes: -umb
Noun
umb m (plural umbe, definite umbi, definite plural umbet)
- small ploughshare on a wooden plough
- Synonym: plor
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | umb | umbi | umbe | umbet |
| accusative | umbin | |||
| dative | umbi | umbit | umbeve | umbeve |
| ablative | umbesh | |||
References
- ^ Meyer, G. (1891) “um”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, , page 457
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “umb”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 485
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Topalli, Kolec (2017) “umb”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in Albanian), Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 1527
Further reading
- “umb,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1], 1980, page 2088a
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “um”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 540a
- Bardhi, Frang (1635) Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum (overall work in Latin and Albanian), page 6: “aratrum — umbi, plori”
Old Norse
Preposition
umb
- alternative form of um
Further reading
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “umb”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive