Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge. · To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it. · To ruin or destroy. · To overcome with emotion; to overwhelm.
A surge of water. · A wooden drainpipe, a hollowed out tree trunk, turned with the cavity downwards to form an arched watercourse.
From Middle English whelmen (“to turn over, capsize; to invert, turn upside down”), perhaps from Old English *hwealmnian, a variant of *hwealfnian, from hwealf (“arched, concave, vaulted; an arched or vaulted ceiling”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwalb, from Proto-Germanic *hwalbą (“arch, vault”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷelp- (“to curve”). Cognates The English word is cognate with Dutch welven (“to arch”), Old Saxon bihwelvian (“to cover, hide”), German wölben (“to bend, curve, arch”), Icelandic hvelfa (“to overturn”), German Walm (“a vaulted roof”), Icelandic hvolf (“vaulted ceiling”), Ancient Greek κόλπος (kólpos, “bosom, hollow, gulf”). The noun is derived from the verb.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*kʷelp-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionwhelmenenm · to turn over, capsize; to invert, turn upside down
- Inherited-form mention*hwealmnianang
- Derivation mention*hwalbgmw-pro
- Derivation mention*hwalbągem-pro · arch, vault
- Derivation mention*kʷelp-ine-pro · to curve
- Cognate mentionwelvennl · to arch
- Cognate mentionbihwelvianosx · to cover, hide
- Cognate mentionwölbende · to bend, curve, arch
- Cognate mentionhvelfais · to overturn
- Cognate mentionWalmde · a vaulted roof
- Cognate mentionhvolfis · vaulted ceiling
- Cognate mentionκόλποςgrc · bosom, hollow, gulf
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