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Definition whelm

Etymology

From Middle English whelmen (“to turn over, capsize; to invert, turn upside down”), perhaps from Old English *hwealmnian, a variant of *hwealfnian, from hwealf (“arched, concave, vaulted; an arched or vaulted ceiling”), from Proto-Germanic *hwalb? (“arch, vault”), from Proto-Indo-European *k?elp- (“to curve”). The English word is cognate with German Walm (“a vaulted roof”), Icelandic hvolf (“vaulted ceiling”), Dutch welven (“to arch”), German wölben (“to bend, curve; to arch”), Icelandic hvelfa (“to overturn”), Old Saxon bihwelvian (“to cover; to hide”), Ancient Greek ?????? (kólpos, “bosom, hollow, gulf”).

The noun is derived from the verb.

Verb

whelm (third-person singular simple present whelms, present participle whelming, simple past and past participle whelmed)

  1. (transitive) To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To ruin or destroy.
  4. (intransitive) To overcome with emotion; to overwhelm.

Noun

whelm (plural whelms)

  1. (poetic, also figuratively) A surge of water.

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