thumb – English noun declension

Noun: thumb

Singular	thumb
Plural	thumbs

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like thumb

soldier's woundwort, Nicosian, whopper, greypate, tactile sign language, chronotrope, Rosie Lee, dissentient, photoinactivator, sulphonediimine, coastal waterfall, residuary devise, bituminization, nitrosonaphthol, smṛiti, geosphere, backscreen, mensuralist, flocculate, flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Derived from Middle English thombe, thoume, thoumbe (“thumb”), from Old English þūma (“thumb”), from Proto-West Germanic *þūmō (“thumb”), from Proto-Germanic *þūmô (“thumb”), from Proto-Indo-European *tūm- (“to grow”).
2. Cognate with West Frisian tomme (“thumb”), Dutch duim (“thumb”), Low German Duum (“thumb”), German Daumen (“thumb”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk tomme (“inch”), Norn tum (“thumb”), Swedish tumme (“thumb”), tum (“inch”), Russian дюйм (djujm, “inch”), Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “burial mound”). Also compare Welsh tyfu (“to grow”), Latin tumēre (“to swell”), Lithuanian tumėti (“to thicken, clot”), Avestan 𐬀𐬨𐬏𐬙 (amūt, “strong”), Sanskrit तुम्र (túmra, “strong, thick”). The parasitic ‐b has existed since the late 13th century. Doublet of tomb. See: Middle English Nouns 'thombe', Old English Nouns 'þūma', Dutch Nouns 'duim', German Nouns 'Daumen', Swedish Nouns 'tumme', Russian Nouns 'дюйм', Ancient Greek Nouns 'τύμβος', Latin Nouns 'tumēre'.

Verbs referencing "thumb"

English Nouns tumor, English Nouns tumour, German Nouns Daumen, Dutch Nouns duim, Russian Nouns дюйм, Danish Nouns tomme.