umb

See also: UMB and umb-

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Umbundu or Umbundu úmbúndú.

Symbol

umb

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Umbundu.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Umbundu terms

Albanian

Alternative forms

• um, hum, humb — Gheg, dialectal

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibilities include:

1. Borrowed from Vulgar Latin, from the nominative of Latin vōmis, vōmeris (“ploughshare”), though the phonetical evolution is not regular.
2. Borrowed from Vulgar Latin, from Latin humus (“earth, soil”), though it is difficult to reconcile semantically.

In both cases, the final /b/ would be unetymological.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈumb/
• Rhymes: -umb

Noun

umb m (plural umbe, definite umbi, definite plural umbet)

1. small ploughshare on a wooden plough

   Synonym: plor

Declension

Declension of umb

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	umb	umbi	umbe	umbet
accusative		umbin
dative	umbi	umbit	umbeve	umbeve
ablative			umbesh

Further reading

• “umb,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980, page 2088a
• Mann, S. E. (1948), “um”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 540a
• Bardhi, Frang (1635), Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum (overall work in Latin and Albanian), page 6: “aratrum — umbi, plori”

Old Norse

Preposition

umb

1. alternative form of um

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “umb”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive