wam

(Engels)

1. (archaic, feminine, masculine) a belly
2. (archaic, feminine, masculine) a stomach
3. (feminine, masculine) a beef dewlap
4. (feminine, masculine) a fish belly cut open

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ʋɑm/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle Dutch: wamme

Geërf van Old Dutch: wamba

Verwante met Nederlands: wambuis

Verwante met Engels: womb

Verwante met Skots: wam

Verwante met Duits: Wamme

Verwante met Deens: vom

Verwante met Sweeds: våmb

Verwante met Noors: vomb

Verwante met Yslands: vömb

In summary

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”).