wombe
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English womb, wamb, from Proto-Germanic *wambō.
Noun
wombe (plural wombes or womben)
- The stomach (digestive organ):
- 1395, John Wycliffe, Bible, Jonah II:
- And þe Lord made redi a gret fish þat he shulde swolewe Ionas; and Ionas was in wombe of þe fish þre daȝes and þre niȝtis.
- 1395, John Wycliffe, Bible, Jonah II:
- The stomach (portion of a body between the torso and the chest):
- The womb or uterus; the location where a baby gestates.
- The digestive organs or entrails of an organism.
- The hollow inside or interior of something.
Derived terms
References
- “wōmb(e (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-23.
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