umb

umb

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

• um, hum, humb — Gheg, dialectal

Uncertain. Possibilities include:

1. Borrowed from Vulgar Latin, from the nominative of Latin vōmis, vōmeris (“ploughshare”),^[1][2] though the phonetical evolution is not regular.^[3]
2. Borrowed from Vulgar Latin, from Latin humus (“earth, soil”),^[3] though it is difficult to reconcile semantically.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈumb/
• Rhymes: -umb

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

1. small ploughshare on a wooden plough

   Synonym: plor

• “umb,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 2088a
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “um”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 540a
• Bardhi, Frang (1635) Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum (overall work in Latin and Albanian), page 6: “aratrum — umbi, plori”

umb

1. Alternative form of um

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