different between gumbe vs umbe

English

Noun

gumbe (uncountable)

1. A style of music from Guinea-Bissau which is primarily vocal and percussive.

See also

• gumbe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Begum, begum

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

gumbe m (definite singular gumben, indefinite plural gumbar, definite plural gumbane)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1938; superseded by gumme

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

gumbe

1. inflection of gumba (“swarm”):
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural

English

Alternative forms

• umb, um, umben

Etymology

From Middle English umbe, embe, from Old English ymbe (“around, about”), from Proto-Germanic *umbi (“around, about, by, near”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?m?b?i (“round about, around”). Cognate with West Frisian om (“around”), Dutch om (“around”), German um (“around”), Danish om (“around, about”), Icelandic umb, um (“around”), Latin amb- (“around, about”), ambi- (“both”), Ancient Greek ???? (amphí, “around, about”), Sanskrit ??? (abhi, “against, about”).

Preposition

umbe

1. (obsolete) Around, about; after.

Derived terms

• umbestound

Anagrams

• Embu

Middle English

Alternative forms

• embe

Etymology

From Old English ymbe (“around, about”).

Adverb

umbe

1. around
2. about

Preposition

umbe

1. around
2. about

Descendants

• English: umbe, umb, um, umben (obsolete)
• Scots: umbe-

Old Dutch

Alternative forms

• umbi

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *umbi, from Proto-Germanic *umbi.

Preposition

umbe

1. about, around

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: omme, ombe, om
  • Dutch: om
    • Afrikaans: om
  • Limburgish: ómb, óm

References

• Altniederfränkischer Psalm 2