whelm

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

1. (archaic, transitive) To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To ruin or destroy.
4. (archaic, intransitive) To overcome with emotion; to overwhelm.

Noun

1. (also, figuratively, poetic) A surge of water.
2. A wooden drainpipe, a hollowed out tree trunk, turned with the cavity downwards to form an arched watercourse.

Concepts

submerger

abreuver

🚰

dépasser

vaincre

Opposé de

unwhelm

Synonymes

overwhelm

overpower

overcome

sweep over

overrun

overtake

flood

engulf

overflow

swallow up

raid

seize

shower

🚿

squat

submerge

take

take over

wrinkle

absorb

move in on

capture

carry

corner

deluge

encroach upon

flush

grip

inundate

occupy

Traductions

überschütten

verschütten

βυθίζω

καλύπτω

ضرب

غطّ

تجاوز

تغلب

سيطر

غمر

سحق

ابتلع

تخطى

دحر

هزم

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ʍɛlm/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: whelmen

Hérité de ancien anglais: *hwealmnian

Appartenant à allemand: Walm

Appartenant à islandais: hvolf

Appartenant à néerlandais: welven

Appartenant à allemand: wölben

Appartenant à islandais: hvelfa

Appartenant à Old Saxon: bihwelvian

Appartenant à grec ancien: κόλπος

In summary

From Middle English whelmen (“to turn over, capsize; to invert, turn upside down”), perhaps from Old English *hwealmnian, a variant of *hwealfnian, from hwealf (“arched, concave, vaulted; an arched or vaulted ceiling”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwalb, from Proto-Germanic *hwalbą (“arch, vault”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷelp- (“to curve”). The English word is cognate with Dutch welven (“to arch”), Old Saxon bihwelvian (“to cover, hide”), German wölben (“to bend, curve, arch”), Icelandic hvelfa (“to overturn”), German Walm (“a vaulted roof”), Icelandic hvolf (“vaulted ceiling”), Ancient Greek κόλπος (kólpos, “bosom, hollow, gulf”).
The noun is derived from the verb.