combe

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /kuːm/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A valley, often wooded and often with no river
    — its long, latticed window [...] looked out on a wild spreading view of hill and heather and wooded combe.
  2. A cirque.

词形变化

combes plural comb alternative coomb alternative coombe alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
Comberow Comstock

词源

From Middle English coumbe, cumbe, from Old English cumb, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kumbaz; compare Dutch kom (“bowl, basin”), German Kump (“vessel”).
Related to Welsh cwm (“a hollow valley”), Ancient Greek κύμβη (kúmbē, “hollow”), Sanskrit कुम्भ (kumbha, “a pot, jug”), etc. through Proto-Indo-European *ḱumbʰ-.
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