cwm

Unadapted borrowing from Welsh cwm (“valley”). Doublet of combe.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /kuːm/, /kʊm/^[1][2][3][4]

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• Homophones: combe, coom, khoum (some pronunciations)
• Rhymes: -uːm

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cwm (plural cwms)

1. A valley head created through glacial erosion and with a shape similar to an amphitheatre.

   Synonyms: cirque, combe, corrie

• cirque on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Middle Welsh cwm, from Proto-Brythonic *komm, from Proto-Celtic *kumbā.

See also Breton komm (“trough”), Irish com, coim (“chest cavity”), French combe, English coomb and Old English cumb (“hollow; narrow valley”), Dutch kom (“bowl, basin”), German Kumpf (“vessel”), Ancient Greek κύμβη (kúmbē, “hollow”),Sanskrit कुम्भ (kumbha, “a pot, jug”).

• IPA^(key): /kʊm/
• Rhymes: -ʊm

cwm m (plural cymau or cymoedd or cymydd)

1. valley, dale, glen

• → English: cwm

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cwm”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies