um-
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "um"
Alternative forms
Etymology
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”).
Prefix
um-
- (rare, now rarely productive, primarily in dialects, chiefly Scotland) Prefix meaning around, about.
Derived terms
Anagrams
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Etymology
From the preposition um.
Prefix
um-
Derived terms
Etymology
From Middle High German um-, umb-, umme-, umbe-, from Old High German umbi- (“around”), from Proto-West Germanic *umbi-, from Proto-Germanic *umbi- (“around”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“by, near, around”). Cognate with English um-, Dutch om-, Swedish om-, Icelandic um-.
Pronunciation
Prefix
um- (separable or inseparable)
- round, round about
- repeatedly, over again, re-
- in another way
- to the ground, down, over
Usage notes
When this prefix is separable, the stress falls on the prefix: ˈumbiegen, ˈumbilden, ˈumdeuten, ˈumbenennen. When inseparable, the stress falls on the root: umˈflattern, umˈfluten, umˈgaukeln, umˈmauern, umˈgeben. The prefix is only unstressed/inseparable when referring to the first meaning. Sometimes this creates contrasting words with opposite meaning, only distinguished in stress and therefore undistinguishable in writing, e.g. umˈfahren (“drive around something”), ˈumfahren (“drive something over”).
Derived terms
- umarbeiten
- umarmen
- umbiegen
- umbilden
- umbringen
- umdeuten
- umdrehen
- umfahren
- umfärben
- umfassen
- umfluten
- umgarnen
- umgeben
- umgehen
- umgrenzen
- umgürten
- umkämpfen
- umladen
- umlagern
- umlegen
- ummanteln
- ummauern
- umnieten
- umpacken
- umpolen
- umpusten
- umrennen
- umsatteln
- umschalten
- umschiffen
- umschlagen
- umschließen
- umschlingen
- umsetzen
- umspinnen
- umsteigen
- umstellen
- umstoßen
- umstürzen
- umtrampeln
- umtreten
- umtüten
- umverteilen
- umwandeln
- umwerfen
- umwickeln
- umwinden
- umzäunen
- umziehen
- umzingeln
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Etymology 1
Prefix
um-
- Class 1 noun prefix; form of umu- used before stems of more than one syllable.
Etymology 2
Prefix
um-
- Class 3 noun prefix; form of umu- used before stems of more than one syllable.
Etymology 1
Prefix
um-
- Class 1 noun prefix; form of umu- used before stems of more than one syllable.
Etymology 2
Prefix
um-
- Class 3 noun prefix; form of umu- used before stems of more than one syllable.
Etymology 1
Prefix
um-
- Class 1 noun prefix; form of umu- used before stems of more than one syllable.
Etymology 2
Prefix
um-
- Class 3 noun prefix; form of umu- used before stems of more than one syllable.
Etymology
See -um-.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔum/ [ʔʊm]
- Syllabification: um-
Prefix
um- (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜋ᜔)
- prefix form of -um- for verbs starting with a vowel
- Umulan kanina.
- It rained a while ago.
- Umalis na ako.
- I already left.
See also
Etymology 1
From Proto-Bantu *jʊ̀-mʊ̀-.
Prefix
um-
- Class 1 noun prefix.
Etymology 2
From Proto-Bantu *gʊ́-mʊ̀-.
Prefix
um-
- Class 3 noun prefix.
Etymology 1
Prefix
úm-
- Class 1 noun prefix; form of umu- used before stems of more than one syllable.
Etymology 2
Prefix
úm-
- Class 3 noun prefix; form of umu- used before stems of more than one syllable.
References
- C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “um-”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “um-”
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