umb
- (international standards)ISO 639-2 &ISO 639-3language code forUmbundu.
Uncertain. Possibilities include:
- Borrowed fromVulgar Latin, from the nominative ofLatinvōmis, vōmeris(“ploughshare”),[1][2] though the phonetical evolution is not regular.[3]
- Borrowed fromVulgar Latin, fromLatinhumus(“earth, soil”),[3] though it is difficult to reconcile semantically.
In both cases, the final/b/ would be unetymological.
umb m (pluralumbe, definiteumbi, definite pluralumbet)
- smallploughshare on a woodenplough
- Synonym:plor
- ^Meyer,G. (1891) “um”, inEtymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner,→DOI,page457
- ^Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “umb”, inAlbanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill,→ISBN, page485
- ↑3.03.1Topalli, Kolec (2017) “umb”, inFjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in Albanian), Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page1527
- “umb,~i”, inFGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1],1980, page2088a
- Mann,S. E. (1948) “um”, inAn Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page540a
- Bardhi, Frang (1635)Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum (overall work in Latin and Albanian),page 6: “aratrum — umbi, plori”
umb
- Alternative form ofum
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “umb”, inA Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at theInternet Archive
