wam

From Middle Dutch wamme, wam (“belly; stomach”), from Old Dutch wamba (“belly; body”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly, stomach, abdomen”), from Proto-Indo-European *wamp- (“membrane (of bowels), intestines, womb”). Related to Dutch wambuis (“gambeson”), from wamb (“belly”) + buis (“jacket, cover”). Cognate to English womb, Scots wam, wame (“womb”), German Wamme, Wampe (“paunch, belly”), Danish vom (“belly, paunch, rumen”), Swedish våmb (“belly, stomach, rumen”), Norwegian vomb (“belly”), Icelandic vömb (“belly, abdomen, stomach”).

• IPA^(key): /ʋɑm/

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• Hyphenation: wam
• Rhymes: -ɑm

wam m or f (plural wammen, diminutive wammetje n)

1. (archaic) a belly
2. (archaic) a stomach
3. a beef dewlap
4. a fish belly cut open

• (belly): buik, pens
• (stomach): maag, pens
• (beef dewlap): runderhalskwab, kossem

wam

1. arm

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975), page 602

• IPA^(key): [wam]

wam

1. dative of wy

wam

1. Alternative form of whom (“who, whom”, accusative)

wam

1. drought

• IPA^(key): /ˈvam/

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• Rhymes: -am
• Syllabification: wam

wam

1. dative of wy

wam

1. arm

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975), page 602

wam

1. louse