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wam.

a belly

3 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

noun/ʋɑm/

  1. a belly

    archaic · feminine · masculine

  2. a stomach

    archaic · feminine · masculine

  3. a beef dewlap

    feminine · masculine

  4. a fish belly cut open

    feminine · masculine
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch wamme, wam (“belly; stomach”), from Old Dutch wamba (“belly; body”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly, stomach, abdomen”), from Proto-Indo-European *wamp- (“membrane (of bowels), intestines, womb”). Related to Dutch wambuis (“gambeson”), from wamb (“belly”) + buis (“jacket, cover”). Cognate to English womb, Scots wam, wame (“womb”), German Wamme, Wampe (“paunch, belly”), Danish vom (“belly, paunch, rumen”), Swedish våmb (“belly, stomach, rumen”), Norwegian vomb (“belly”), Icelandic vömb (“belly, abdomen, stomach”).

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