*þūmô

Runic: ᚦᚢᛗᛟ Pronunciation: /ˈθuː.mɔːː/

noun · masculine · an-stem

Meanings

thumb

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *tu (h₂)m-ō, from *tum- (‘to swell’), thus "big swollen finger" > "thumb". Cognate with Sanskrit तुम्र (túmra) (túmra, ‘strong, big’), Latin tumor (‘swelling, tumor’), Lithuanian tumė́ti (‘to coagulate’), Welsh twf (‘strength’).

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	þūmô	þūmaniz
Acc.	þūmanų	þūmanunz
Gen.	þūminiz	þūmanǫ̂
Dat.	þūmini	þūmammaz
Inst.	þūminē	þūmammiz
Voc.	þūmô	þūmaniz

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Descendants

*þūmō (Proto-West Germanic)
- *thūmo (Old Dutch)
  - dume (Middle Dutch)
    - doem, doemb (Limburgish)
*þūmō (Proto-West Germanic)
- *thūmo (Old Dutch)
  - dume (Middle Dutch)
    - duim, dom (Dutch)
      - duim (Afrikaans)
      - doin (Aukan)
      - doi (Caribbean Hindustani)
      - dim (Caribbean Javanese)
      - dim (Indonesian)
      - tompi (Negerhollands)
      - dùim, duim (Papiamentu)
      - дюйм (djujm) (Russian)
*þūmō (Proto-West Germanic)
- þūma, *ᚦᚢᛗᚪ (*þuma) (Old English)
  - thombe (Middle English)
    - thumb (English)
    - thoum (Scots)
    - thoome, thoume (Yola)
*þūmō (Proto-West Germanic)
- thūma (Old Frisian)
  - tome, töme (North Frisian)
  - Tume (Saterland Frisian)
  - tomme, tûme (West Frisian)
*þūmō (Proto-West Germanic)
- dūmo (Old High German)
  - dūme, doume, tūme (Middle High German)
    - Tuume, Duume (Alemannic German)
    - Daumen (German)
*þūmō (Proto-West Germanic)
- dūmo (Old High German)
  - dūme, doume, tūme (Middle High German)
    - Daam, Dama (Bavarian)
      - daumo (Cimbrian)
*þūmō (Proto-West Germanic)
- dūmo (Old High German)
  - dūme, doume, tūme (Middle High German)
    - Dumme, Dumm, Daume, Daum (Central Franconian)
      - Daume (Hunsrik)
      - Daum (Luxembourgish)
*þūmō (Proto-West Germanic)
- dūmo (Old High German)
  - dūme, doume, tūme (Middle High German)
    - Daume, Dumme (Rhine Franconian)
      - Daume (Pennsylvania German)
*þūmō (Proto-West Germanic)
- thūmo (Old Saxon)
  - dûme (Middle Low German)
    - Dumen, Dume, Duum (German Low German)
    - Dumen (Plautdietsch)
*þumi (Old Norse)
- tummi (Faroese)
- þumi (Icelandic)
- tum (Norn)
- ᚦᚢᛘᛒᛚᛁᚾᚵᛁ (Old Gutnish)
*þumi (Old Norse)
- tomme (Danish)
  - tomma (Icelandic)
  - tomme (Norwegian Bokmål)
*þumi (Old Norse)
- ? (Old Gutnish)
  - tumme (Gutnish)
*þumi (Old Norse)
- þumi (Old Swedish)
  - tumme, tum (Swedish)
*tuumën (Proto-Finnic)

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