þuma

See also: yuma and Yuma

Old English

Alternative forms

• *ᚦᚢᛗᚪ (*þuma)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *þūmō, from Proto-Germanic *þūmô.

Cognate with Old Frisian thūma (West Frisian tomme), Old Saxon thūmo (Low German Dumen or Duum), Dutch duim, Old High German dūmo (German Daumen), Danish tomme, Swedish tumme; and also with Latin tumēre (“to swell”), through the Indo-European root.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθuː.mɑ/

Noun

þūma m

1. thumb

Declension

Weak:

	singular	plural
nominative	þūma	þūman
accusative	þūman	þūman
genitive	þūman	þūmena
dative	þūman	þūmum

Descendants

• Middle English: thombe
  • English: thumb
  • Scots: thoum
  • Yola: thoome, thoume