cwm

English

WOTD – 23 July 2010    

Wikipedia

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

Etymology

From Welsh cwm (“valley”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ko͞om, IPA: /kuːm/, X-SAMPA: /ku:m/
• Rhymes: -uːm

Noun

cwm (plural cwms)

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

Synonyms

• (valley): cirque, coombe, corrie

Translations

valley head created through glacial erosion

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 山側凹地 (cmn), 山侧凹地 (cmn) (shāncè āodì)

• Finnish: onsilo (fi)
• French: cirque (fr)
• German: Kar (de) n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: botn (no) m

  Nynorsk: botn (nn) m

• Russian: (ледниковый (ru) (lednikovyj)) цирк (ru) (cirk) m
• Serbian: krnica f
• Spanish: circo (es)

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Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kumbā (compare Breton komm ‘trough’, Irish com, coim ‘chest cavity’), from Proto-Indo-European *kumb- (compare English hump, Latin incumbere ‘to lie down’).

Noun

cwm m (plural cymau or cymoedd)

1. valley, dale, glen

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cwm	gwm	nghwm	chwm

Descendants

• English: cwm