tom.
empty
Meaning & usage
empty
tomma tunnor skramlar mest
Where this word comes from
From Old Norse tómr, from Proto-Germanic *tōmaz (“empty”).
A tome, a volume (in a series of books), a (thick) book.
Where this word comes from
Used in Swedish since 1697. From French tome, Latin tomus (“section of larger work”), from Ancient Greek τόμος (tómos, “section, roll of papyrus, volume”), from τέμνω (témnō, “to cut, separate”). Cognate with English tome.
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