Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗prefix
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryPrefix meaning around, about.
From Middle English um-, umbe-, embe-, from Old English ymb-, ymbe- (“around”), from Proto-West Germanic *umbi-, from Proto-Germanic *umbi (“around, about, by, near”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“round about, around”). Cognate with Dutch om- (“around”), German um- (“around”), Latin amb- (“around, about”), Latin ambi- (“both”), Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí, “around, about”), Sanskrit अभि (abhi, “against, about”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionum-enm
- Inherited-form mentionymb-ang
- Inherited-form mention*umbigmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*umbigem-pro · around, about, by, near
- Derivation mention*h₂m̥bʰiine-pro
- Cognate mentionom-nl
- Cognate mentionum-de
- Cognate mentionamb-la
- Cognate mentionambi-la
- Cognate mentionἀμφίgrc
- Cognate mentionअभिsa
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