Noun: hom
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:
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Coordinate term: kuit (“spawn, roe”)
Nouns inflected like hom
schram,
waarborgsom,
stekelbrem,
oorlogstrom,
ouderdom,
boomstam,
atoombom,
bermbom,
optelsom,
dwangsom,
zwemkom,
borgsom,
echte tonderzwam,
schijnstam,
sneeuwbom,
groothertogdom,
zakkam,
vorstbisdom,
oesterzwam,
gasvlam, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch homme, identical to homme (“mold”), of uncertain origin, but probably related to Old Norse húm (“dusky, twilight”), from Proto-Germanic *skim- (“to shine-”), which has been compared to Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”), but according to the Etymologisch Woordenboek this is extremely unlikely.
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