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See also: UMB and umb-

Translingual

Symbol

umb

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Umbundu.

English

Pronunciation

Preposition

umb

  1. Alternative form of umbe

Anagrams

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibilities include:

  1. Borrowed from Vulgar Latin, from the nominative of Latin vōmis, vōmeris (“ploughshare”), though the phonetical evolution is not regular.
  2. Borrowed from Vulgar Latin, from Latin humus (“earth, soil”), though it is difficult to reconcile semantically.

In both cases, the final /b/ would be unetymological.

Pronunciation

Noun

umb m (plural umbe, definite umbi, definite plural umbet)

  1. small ploughshare on a wooden plough
    Synonym: plor

Declension

Declension of umb
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative umb umbe umbi umbet
accusative umbin
dative umbi umbeve umbit umbevet
ablative umbesh

References

  1. ^ Meyer, G. (1891) “um”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 457
  2. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “umb”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 485
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Topalli, K. (2017) “umb”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 1527

Further reading

  • “umb,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980, page 2088a
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “um”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 540a
  • Bardhi, F. (1635) Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum (overall work in Latin and Albanian), page 6: “aratrum — umbi, plori”

Old Norse

Preposition

umb

  1. Alternative form of um

References

  • “umb”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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