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gumi.

a man

4 characters2 syllables approx.Íslenska language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈkʏːmɪ]
  1. a man

    masculine · poetic
Where this word comes from

From Old Norse gumi (“a man”, poetic) from the Proto-Germanic *gumô, originally from the Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰm̥mō. Germanic cognates include Old Saxon gumo, Old High German gumo, Norwegian gume, and Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌼𐌰 (guma). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin homo and Baltic *žmo- (Lithuanian žmōgùs).

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