whelm

Значение (Английский)

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.

Напротив

unwhelm

Синонимы

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

Переводы

überschütten

verschütten

βυθίζω

submerger

καλύπτω

غطّ

ضرب

تجاوز

غمر

تغلب

سحق

ابتلع

تخطى

دحر

سيطر

Произносится как (IPA)

/ʍɛlm/

Этимология (Английский)

Унаследовано от среднеанглийский: whelmen

Унаследовано от староанглийский: *hwealmnian

Родственно немецкий: Walm

Родственно исландский: hvolf

Родственно нидерландский: welven

Родственно немецкий: wölben

Родственно исландский: hvelfa

Родственно Old Saxon: bihwelvian

Родственно древнегреческий: 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.