wem

(Engels)

A spot, stain, or mark; (by extension) a (moral) blemish or fault.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/wɛm/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: wem

Geërf van Old English: wamm

Verwante met Yslands: vamm

Verwante met Latyn: vomō

Verwante met Engels: vomit

Verwante met Antieke Grieks: ἐμέω

Verwante met Engels: emesis

Verwante met Litaus: vemti

Verwante met Sanskrit: वमति

In summary

From Middle English wem, wemme, from Old English womm (“stain, spot”), from Proto-Germanic *wammaz (“stain, spot”), from Proto-Indo-European *wemh₁- (“to spew, vomit”). Cognate with Icelandic vamm (“loss, damage”), Latin vomō (“to vomit”, verb) (whence English vomit), Ancient Greek ἐμέω (eméō, “to spew”) (English emesis), Lithuanian vémti (“to vomit”), Sanskrit वमति (vamati, “to vomit”). The sense development would be "vomit" > "stain", "fault".

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