woma

From Dieri woma.

woma (plural womas)

1. Short for woma python

From Proto-West Germanic *wōhmō, from Proto-Germanic *wōhmô (“noise, sound, shout, voice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- (“to speak, sound”). Cognate with Old Norse ómr (“sound”), Old Norse ómun (“voice”), Old High German giwahan (“to mention”), Old Norse œmta (“to utter, mutter”), Latin vōx (“voice”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈwoː.mɑ/

wōma m

1. sound, noise
   • 10th century, The Wanderer:

     hrīð hrēosende · hruse bindeð,
     wintres wōma, · þonne won cymeð,

     ground binds the falling snowstorm,
     howling of winter, then the dark comes,

2. alarm, terror

Weak:

• wōm
• wēman

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-wóma

1. to be dry

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• IPA^(key): [ˈwo.ma]

woma

1. breath

woma

1. to breathe

• homa, oma

• IPA^(key): [ˈwo.ma]

woma

1. (of the body) the temple

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh