thoome

Yola

Alternative forms

• thoume

Etymology

From Middle English thombe, from Old English þūma, from Proto-West Germanic *þūmō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θuːm/

Noun

thoome

1. (anatomy) thumb

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 72