tomber

Meaning

1. to fall
2. to come down
3. to bump into, to come across; to be received by (when making a telephone call)
4. to become, to get

Hyphenated as

tom‧ber

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɔ̃.be/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French tomber, from Old French tumber, itself either of expressive/onomatopoeic origin (compare also Catalan and Portuguese tombar; Spanish tumbar; Romanian tumbă; Italian tombolare etc.), or alternatively possibly from a Frankish *tūmōn (“to rotate, reel, sway”), from Proto-Germanic *tūmōną (“to turn, rotate”), of uncertain origin. More at tumb.
Displaced the native choir, inherited from cadō.