Noun: thombe
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like thombe
schimeringe,
synger,
serche,
sengle,
snoute,
saucer,
sauter,
sapour,
saphir,
sachel,
sculle,
scrape,
scrowe,
scisme,
sclate,
schyfe,
schyve,
schole,
schere,
schave, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Old English þūma, from Proto-West Germanic *þūmō, from Proto-Germanic *þūmô.
2. As shown by their early attestation, spellings with final -b- are not mere hypercorrect forms, but rather represent pronunciations with /b/; such pronunciations presumably originated in a plural *thomben or genitive plural *thombene (from Old English þūman, þūmena). Such forms are also presumably the origin of variants with a short vowel. See: Old English Nouns '
þūma', Old English Nouns '
þūma'.
Verbs referencing "thombe"
English Nouns
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Translations