Noun: wam
Gender: Masculine, Feminine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like wam
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 wamme, wam (“belly; stomach”), from Old Dutch wamba (“belly; body”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly, stomach, abdomen”), from Proto-Indo-European *wamp- (“membrane (of bowels), intestines, womb”). Related to Dutch wambuis (“gambeson”), from wamb (“belly”) + buis (“jacket, cover”). Cognate to English womb, Scots wam, wame (“womb”), German Wamme, Wampe (“paunch, belly”), Danish vom (“belly, paunch, rumen”), Swedish våmb (“belly, stomach, rumen”), Norwegian vomb (“belly”), Icelandic vömb (“belly, abdomen, stomach”). See: Dutch Nouns '
wambuis', English Nouns '
womb', German Nouns '
Wamme', Danish Nouns '
vom', Icelandic Nouns '
vömb'.
Verbs referencing "wam"
English Nouns
womb.
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