Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA spot, stain, or mark; (by extension) a (moral) blemish or fault.
From Middle English wem, wemme, from Old English womm (“stain, spot”), from Proto-Germanic *wammaz (“stain, spot”), from Proto-Indo-European *wemh₁- (“to spew, vomit”). Cognate with Icelandic vamm (“loss, damage”), Latin vomō (“to vomit”, verb) (whence English vomit), Ancient Greek ἐμέω (eméō, “to spew”) (English emesis), Lithuanian vémti (“to vomit”), Sanskrit वमति (vamati, “to vomit”). The sense development would be "vomit" > "stain", "fault".
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- Root classification mention*wemh₁-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionwemenm
- Inherited-form mentionwommang · stain, spot
- Inherited-form mention*wammazgem-pro · stain, spot
- Derivation mention*wemh₁-ine-pro · to spew, vomit
- Cognate mentionvammis
- Cognate mentionvomōla
- Cognate mentionvomiten
- Cognate mentionἐμέωgrc
- Cognate mentionemesisen
- Cognate mentionvémtilt
- Cognate mentionवमतिsa
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