ymb
See also: ymb-
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Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *umbi.
Cognate with Old Saxon umbi (Dutch om), Old High German umbi (German um), Old Norse um (Swedish om).
The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin ambi-, Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí), Old Irish imb, Sanskrit अभि (abhí, “towards, over, upon”), Old Persian 𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎹 (abiy, “towards, against, upon”).
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ymb
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References edit
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ymb”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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