wem
English
/wɛm/
noun
Definitions
- (UK) A spot, stain, or mark; (by extension) a (moral) blemish or fault.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English wem inherited from Old English wamm (injury, misfortune, defect, loss, spot, evil, disgrace, sin, defilement, crime, scar, hurt, stain) inherited from Proto-Germanic *wammaz (stain, spot) derived from Proto-Indo-European *wemh₁- (vomit, spew).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*wemh₁-
Gloss
vomit, spew
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
🤢 🤮
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Wem English
- antiemesis English
- bevomit English
- copremesis English
- emesis English
- hematemesis English
- hyperemesis English
- revomit English
- vomit English
- vomit comet English
- vomitable English
- vomiter English
- vomitest English
- vomiteth English
- vomitless English
- vomitlike English
- vomitous English
- vomitskin English
- vomity English
- wemless English
- vamma Finnish
- evomo Latin
- vomax Latin
- vomitāre Latin
- vomo Latin
- vomō Latin
- vomieren German
- vomir French
- vomitar Spanish, Castilian
- ἐμέω Ancient Greek
- ἔμεσις Ancient Greek
- *wem- Proto-Indo-European
- *wemh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *wémh₁-e-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *wammaz Proto-Germanic
- wamm Old English
- वमति Sanskrit
- vomiten Middle English
- wem Middle English
- 𐍅𐌰𐌼𐌼 Gothic
- vom Aromanian
- vemti Lithuanian
- *wámati Proto-Indo-Aryan
- 𐭥𐭩𐭬𐭠𐭫 Middle Persian
- *wamā Proto-Albanian
- bómik Kalasha