Noun: tomme
Gender: Common
Hyphenation:
Nominative
| Sg. indefinite | tomme |
| Sg. definite | tommen |
| Pl. indefinite | tommer |
| Pl. definite | tommerne |
Genitive
| Sg. indefinite | tommes |
| Sg. definite | tommens |
| Pl. indefinite | tommers |
| Pl. definite | tommernes |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like tomme
toiletbørste,
krokodille,
svensknøgle,
nissehue,
overtagelse,
snurre,
snitte,
snerle,
snerre,
snerpe,
satire,
meddelelse,
sjuske,
sminke,
smerte,
slippe,
slange,
slette,
skøjte,
sonate, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Danish thumæ, Old Norse *þumi, from Proto-Germanic *þumô, *þūmô (“thumb”). Cognate with Swedish tumme (“thumb”), German Daumen (“thumb”), and English thumb. As a measurements, it is originally equal to the width of a thumb. An old diminutive of this word is found in Danish tommel, tommelfinger (“thumb”), Old Norse þumalfingr (*þumalaz) and English thimble (*þūmilaz). See: Old Norse Nouns '
*þumi', Swedish Nouns '
tumme', German Nouns '
Daumen', English Nouns '
thumb', Danish Nouns '
tommel', Old Norse Nouns '
þumalfingr', English Nouns '
thimble'.
Verbs referencing "tomme"
German Nouns
Daumen, Old English Nouns
þuma, Dutch Nouns
duim, Icelandic Nouns
tomma.
Translations