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Old English · noun

woma

Normalised wōma

Part of speech
noun, masculine
Declension
weak
IPA
/ˈwoː.mɑ/
Syllables
ˈwoː · mɑ (2 syllables)
Modern English
alarm

Meaning

  1. sound, noise

    wintres wōma, · þonne won cymeð,

    ground binds the falling snowstorm, howling of winter, then the dark comes,

    hrīð hrēosende · hruse bindeð,

  2. alarm, terror

Declension

Declension of woma
SingularPlural
Nominative wōmawōman
Accusative wōmanwōman
Genitive wōmanwōmena
Dative wōmanwōmum

All forms (4)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *wōhmō, from Proto-Germanic *wōhmô (“noise, sound, shout, voice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- (“to speak, sound”). Cognate with Old Norse ómr (“sound”), Old Norse ómun (“voice”), Old High German giwahan (“to mention”), Old Norse œmta (“to utter, mutter”), Latin vōx (“voice”).

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