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tom.

empty

3 characters1 syllables approx.Svenska language

Meaning & usage

adj/tuːm/Sweden
  1. empty

    tomma tunnor skramlar mest
Where this word comes from

From Old Norse tómr, from Proto-Germanic *tōmaz (“empty”).

noun/toːm/Sweden
  1. A tome, a volume (in a series of books), a (thick) book.

    common-gender
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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