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English
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Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Welsh cwm (“valley”). Doublet of combe.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK, US) IPA(key): /kuːm/, /kʊm/[1][2][3][4]
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Homophones: combe, coom, khoum (some pronunciations)
- Rhymes: -uːm
Noun
[edit]cwm (plural cwms)
- A valley head created through glacial erosion and with a shape similar to an amphitheatre.
Translations
[edit]valley head created through glacial erosion
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References
[edit]- ^ The Chambers Dictionary, 9th Ed., 2003
- ^ “cwm”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- ^ “cwm”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.. Accessed 7 September 2013.
- ^ “cwm”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Further reading
[edit]Welsh
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Welsh cwm, from Proto-Brythonic *komm, from Proto-Celtic *kumbā.
See also Breton komm (“trough”), Irish com, coim (“chest cavity”), French combe, English coomb and Old English cumb (“hollow; narrow valley”), Dutch kom (“bowl, basin”), German Kumpf (“vessel”), Ancient Greek κύμβη (kúmbē, “hollow”),Sanskrit कुम्भ (kumbha, “a pot, jug”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cwm m (plural cymau or cymoedd or cymydd)
Descendants
[edit]- → English: cwm
Mutation
[edit]Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
cwm | gwm | nghwm | chwm |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cwm”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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