wem

== Translingual == === Etymology === Clipping of English Weme. === Symbol === wem (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Weme Gbe. === See also === Wiktionary’s coverage of Weme Gbe terms == English == === Alternative forms === weam, weem, wame, wan (Scotland) === Etymology === From Middle English wem, wemme, from Old English womm (“stain, spot”), from Proto-Germanic *wammaz (“stain, spot”), from Proto-Indo-European *wemh₁- (“to spew, vomit”). Cognate with Icelandic vamm (“loss, damage”), Latin vomō (“to vomit”, verb) (whence English vomit), Ancient Greek ἐμέω (eméō, “to spew”) (English emesis), Lithuanian vémti (“to vomit”), Sanskrit वमति (vamati, “to vomit”). The sense development would be "vomit" > "stain", "fault". === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /wɛm/ Rhymes: -ɛm === Noun === wem (plural wems) (UK dialectal) A spot, stain, or mark; (by extension) a (moral) blemish or fault. 1822, sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]), Historical romances of the author of Waverley, page 513: "It is even so," he added, as he gazed on the Sub-Prior with astonishment; "neither wem nor wound — not so much as a rent in his frock!" === Anagrams === MWE, Mew, mew == German == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /veːm/ === Pronoun === wem (interrogative) dative of wer, (to) whom (indirect object). === Further reading === “wem” in Duden online “wem”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German)