cwm

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EnglishEdit

WOTD – 23 July 2010

A cwm on the south side of Rhinog Fawr, in Wales.

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Welsh cwm (“valley”).

PronunciationEdit

• British: IPA^(key): /kʊm/
• American: enPR: ko͞om, IPA^(key): /kuːm/
• Rhymes: -uːm

NounEdit

cwm (plural cwms)

1. A valley head created through glacial erosion and with a shape similar to an amphitheatre.

SynonymsEdit

• (valley): cirque, coombe, corrie

TranslationsEdit

valley head created through glacial erosion

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 山側凹地, 山侧凹地 (shāncè āodì)

• Dutch: keteldal (nl) n, kaar (nl) n, U-dal n
• Esperanto: cirkvalo
• Finnish: onsilo (fi)
• French: cirque (fr)
• German: Kar (de) n

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: botn (no) m

  Nynorsk: botn m

• Russian: (ледниковый (ru) (lednikovyj)) цирк (ru) m (cirk)
• Serbo-Croatian: krnica (sh) f
• Spanish: circo (es)

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WelshEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Celtic *kumbā (compare Breton komm (“trough”), Irish com, coim (“chest cavity”), French combe), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱumbʰ- (compare Latin incumbere (“to lie down”), English coomb and Old English cumb (“hollow; narrow valley”), Dutch kom (“bowl, basin”), Sanskrit कुम्भ (kumbha, “a pot, jug”)).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [kʊm]

NounEdit

cwm m (plural cymau or cymoedd)

1. valley, dale, glen

DescendantsEdit

• English: cwm

MutationEdit

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cwm	gwm	nghwm	chwm
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.