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Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *þūmō, from Proto-Germanic *þūmô.
Cognate with Old Frisian thūma (West Frisian tomme), Old Saxon thūmo (Low German Dumen or Duum), Dutch duim, Old High German dūmo (German Daumen), Danish tomme, Swedish tumme; and also with Latin tumēre (“to swell”), through the Indo-European root.
Pronunciation
Noun
þūma m
- thumb
Declension
Declension of þuma (weak)
Descendants