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語源

Inherited from 古期英語 womb, wamb, from Proto-West Germanic *wambu, from Proto-Germanic *wambō.

The final vowel is generalised from the 古期英語 inflected forms.

発音

• IPA: /ˈwɔ̝ːmb(ə)/, (later) /ˈwɔ̝ːm(ə)/, /ˈwoːm(ə)/
• (Northern) IPA: /waːmb/, (later) /waːm/

名詞

wombe (plural wombes or womben)

1. The stomach (digestive organ):
   • 1395, John Wycliffe, Bible, Jonah II:

     And þe Lord made redi a gret fish þat he shulde swolewe Ionas; and Ionas was in wombe of þe fish þre daȝes and þre niȝtis.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   1. The stomach of livestock used as food.
   2. (figurative) One's diet or lifestyle.
2. The stomach (area between the torso and the chest):
   1. Something resembling a stomach.
   2. The fur or coat taken from an animal's stomach.
   3. The foreside, especially of the stomach.
3. The womb or uterus.
4. The guts or entrails.
5. A hollow interior or cavity.

派生語

• wombed

派生した語

• English: womb

  Geordie English: wyem

• Scots: wame, wam

参照

• “wōmb(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 23 June 2018.