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Etymology of cyme

] Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁éyeti Ancient Greek κῠ́ω (kŭ́ō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Hellenic *-mə Ancient Greek -μᾰ

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Source etymology 1

Original entry ↗
noun

A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud. · A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, on which each axis terminates with a flower which blooms before the flowers below it. · A cyma.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

] Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁éyeti Ancient Greek κῠ́ω (kŭ́ō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Hellenic *-mə Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek κῦμᾰ (kûmă)bor. Latin cȳma Old French cime French cimebor. English cyme Borrowed from French cime, cyme (“top, summit”), from Vulgar Latin *cima, from Latin cȳma (“young sprout of a cabbage”, “spring shoots of cabbage”), from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “anything swollen, such as a wave or billow”; “fetus”, “embryo”, “sprout of a plant”), from κύω (kúō, “to conceive”, “to become pregnant”; in the aorist “to impregnate”). For considerably more information, see cyma, which is an etymological doublet. Compare also Frankish *kīmō (“sprout”), from Proto-Germanic *kīmô, whence German Keim (“sprout”).

Relationships mentioned by the source

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  • Borrowed-form mentioncimefr
  • Derivation mentioncȳmala
  • Derivation mentionκῦμαgrc
  • Doublet mentioncymaen
  • Non-cognate comparison*kīmôgem-pro
  • Non-cognate comparisonKeimde · sprout
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Source etymology 2

Original entry ↗
noun

Misspelling of senna.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

An error for cynne, probably resulting from the overlapping of the two ens in handwriting.

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