fumble – English noun declension

Noun: fumble

Singular	fumble
Plural	fumbles

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like fumble

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. From late Middle English, from Low German fummeln, fommeln, fammeln (German fummeln), or Dutch fommelen.
2. Or, perhaps from a Scandinavian/North Germanic source; compare related Old Norse fálma, Icelandic fálma, Danish fumle, especially Swedish fumla, famla, with variants: fumbla (“fumble”), fambla (“famble”), related to Swedish fim, fem (Danish fim, Norwegian fim, feima), with a root meaning of “cover, coating of foam or figuratively ditto”, cognate to German Feim (“surf”) and English foam. Possibly has (a more or less unconscious) connection to fathom (via Old Norse faðmr, Swedish famn) in the sense of “embrace”.
3. The ultimate origin for either could perhaps be imitative of fumbling. Or, from Proto-Indo-European *pal- (“to shake, swing”), see also Latin palpo (“to pat, touch softly”), and possibly Proto-West Germanic *fōlijan (“to feel”). See: Old Norse Nouns 'fálma', Icelandic Nouns 'fálma', German Nouns 'Feim', English Nouns 'foam', Latin Nouns 'palpo'.

Verbs referencing "fumble"

English Nouns fun, Swedish Nouns fån.