whelm

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

sopraffare

sorpassare

travolgere

Opposto di

unwhelm

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

überschütten

verschütten

βυθίζω

submerger

καλύπτω

غطّ

ضرب

تجاوز

غمر

تغلب

سحق

ابتلع

تخطى

دحر

سيطر

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ʍɛlm/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: whelmen

Ereditato da inglese antico: *hwealmnian

Affine tedesco: Walm

Affine islandese: hvolf

Affine olandese: welven

Affine tedesco: wölben

Affine islandese: hvelfa

Affine Old Saxon: bihwelvian

Affine greco antico: 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.