cwm

See also: CWM

English
WOTD – 23 July 2010
A cwm on the south side of Rhinog Fawr, in Wales.

Etymology

Borrowed from Welsh cwm (“valley”).

Pronunciation
  • British: IPA(key): /kʊm/[1]
  • American: enPR: ko͞om, IPA(key): /kuːm/
  • Rhymes: -uːm

Noun

cwm (plural cwms)

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

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References
  1. “cwm” (US) / “cwm” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.. Accessed 7 September 2013.

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kumbā (compare Breton komm (“trough”), Irish com, coim (“chest cavity”), French combe), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱumbʰ- (compare Latin incumbere (“to lie down”), English coomb and Old English cumb (“hollow; narrow valley”), Dutch kom (“bowl, basin”), German Kumpf (“vessel”), Sanskrit कुम्भ (kumbha, “a pot, jug”)).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kʊm/

Noun

cwm m (plural cymau or cymoedd)

  1. valley, dale, glen

Descendants

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
cwm gwm nghwm chwm
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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