vom

See also: VOM and vòm

English

Etymology

Clipping of vomit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɒm/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

vom (uncountable)

1. (informal) Vomit.

Verb

vom (third-person singular simple present voms, present participle vomming, simple past and past participle vommed)

1. (informal) To vomit.
   • 1998, Robert McLiam Wilson, Ripley Bogle, page 185:

     Bogle the diplomat tried to hide the sound of his gagging as he vommed the night away.

   • 2010, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Rhino What You Did Last Summer:

     Then the waft of puke and stale bourbon reaches my nostrils and I get that shorp^[sic] taste in my mouth that you get when you know you're going to vom.

Anagrams

• MOV, OMV, mov.

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• vomu, zvom, zvomu

Etymology

From Latin vomō. Compare Romanian voame, vom.

Verb

vom first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative voami or voame, past participle vumutã)

1. to vomit

Related terms

• voamiri / voamire, vumeari / vumeare, vumeri
• vumut

See also

• versu

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse vǫmb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔm/, [vʌmˀ]

Noun

vom c (singular definite vommen, plural indefinite vomme)

1. belly
2. paunch

Declension

Declension of vom

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	vom	vommen	vomme	vommene
genitive	voms	vommens	vommes	vommenes

Derived terms

• vommet

Further reading

• “vom” in Den Danske Ordbog

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔm/, [fɔm]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio:

  (file)

Contraction

vom (+ adjective ending with -en + masculine or neuter noun)

1. from the, of the; about the (contraction of von + dem)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) Vaamb, Vomb, vomb

Etymology

From Old Norse vǫmb, from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly; womb”). Cognates include English womb.

Noun

vom f (definite singular vomma, indefinite plural vommer, definite plural vommene)

1. (anatomy, in ruminants) rumen
2. (anatomy, in other animals) stomach
3. (anatomy, colloquial, sometimes derogatory) a paunch, big belly

Inflection

Historical inflection of vom

		singular		plural
		indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
Aasen1		Vomb	Vombi	Vember	Vemberna
1901				vember (vembar)	vemberne (vembane)
1917		vomb, vom	vomba, vombi, vomma, vommi	vember, vemmer	vembene2 vemberne, vemmene
1938		vom	vomma [vommi]	vemmer	vemmene
1962				vemmer, vommer	vemmene, vommene
2012 (current)		vom	vomma	vommer	vommene

• Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard.
• Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier.
• Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen.
• ¹Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century. ²Form was allowed for schoolchildren already in 1910.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vom]

Verb

(noi) vom (modal auxiliary, first-person plural form of vrea, used with infinitives to form future indicative tenses)

1. (we) will

   Vom lua prânzul la ora douăsprezece.

   We will have lunch at 12 o'clock.

Swedish

Alternative forms

• våm

Noun

vom c

1. a rumen, a paunch (the first compartment of the stomach of ruminants)

Declension

Declension of vom

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	vom	voms
	definite	vommen	vommens
plural	indefinite	vommar	vommars
	definite	vommarna	vommarnas

See also

• nätmage (“reticulum, bonnet”)
• bladmage (“omasum, psalterium, manyplies”)
• löpmage (“abomasum, reed”)

References

• vom in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vom in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vom in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English woman (woman (truncated) > wom > vom).

Noun

vom (nominative plural voms)

1. woman (adult female human)

Declension

Declension of vom

	singular	plural
nominative	vom	voms
genitive	voma	vomas
dative	vome	vomes
accusative	vomi	vomis
vocative 1	o vom!	o voms!
predicative 2	vomu	vomus

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Hypernyms

• men
• nim

Coordinate terms

• man

Derived terms

• vomajit
• vomakleud
• vomef
• vomidek
• vomik
• vomil
• vomöf
• vomöfik
• vomül