cwm

See also: CWM

English

WOTD – 23 July 2010

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Welsh cwm (“valley”). Doublet of combe.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /kʊm/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /kuːm/, enPR: ko͞om
• Rhymes: -uːm

Noun

cwm (plural cwms)

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

   Synonyms: cirque, combe, corrie

Translations

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)

Further reading

• cirque on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Welsh

Etymology

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”), German Kumpf (“vessel”), Sanskrit कुम्भ (kumbha, “a pot, jug”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʊm/

Noun

cwm m (plural cymau or cymoedd)

1. valley, dale, glen

Descendants

• → English: cwm

Mutation

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.