different between stoom vs toom

English

Verb

stoom (third-person singular simple present stooms, present participle stooming, simple past and past participle stoomed)

1. Alternative form of stum

Anagrams

• MOTOS, Smoot, Tooms, moots, motos, smoot, tomos, tooms

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch stoom, from Middle Dutch *stôom, from Old Dutch *st?m, from Proto-West Germanic *staum, from Proto-Germanic *staumaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st???m/

Noun

stoom (uncountable)

1. steam

Derived terms

• stoomboot

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch *stôom, from Old Dutch *st?m, from Proto-West Germanic *staum, from Proto-Germanic *staumaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sto?m/
• Hyphenation: stoom
• Rhymes: -o?m

Noun

stoom m (uncountable)

1. steam

Hypernyms

• waterdamp

Derived terms

• stomen
• stoombad
• stoombaggermolen
• stoomboot
• stoombrandspuit
• stoomcarrousel
• stoomdraaimolen
• stoomfiets
• stoomfluit
• stoomgemaal
• stoomketel
• stoomklep
• stoomkraan
• stoomkracht
• stoomlocomotief
• stoommachine
• stoommolen
• stoompaard
• stoompan
• stoompijp
• stoomrem
• stoomschip
• stoomstrijkijzer
• stoomtram
• stoomtrawler
• stoomtreiler
• stoomturbine
• stoomvaart
• stoomvaartuig
• stoomwals

Descendants

• Afrikaans: stoom
• ? Indonesian: setom, setum
• ? West Frisian: stoom

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch stoom.

Noun

stoom c (no plural)

1. steam

   Synonym: steam

Derived terms

• stoomboat

Further reading

• “stoom”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u?m

Etymology 1

From Middle English toom, tom, from Old English t?m (“empty”), from Proto-Germanic *t?maz (“free, available, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *doma- (“to tame”), *dema- (“to build”). Cognate with Danish and Swedish tom (“empty, vacant”), Icelandic tómur (“empty”).

Adjective

toom (comparative more toom, superlative most toom)

1. (rare or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Empty; bare.

Derived terms

• toomly

Noun

toom (plural tooms)

1. (chiefly Scottish) A piece of waste ground where rubbish is deposited.

Verb

toom (third-person singular simple present tooms, present participle tooming, simple past and past participle toomed)

1. (rare or dialectal) To empty; teem.

Etymology 2

From Middle English toom, tome, tom, from Old Norse tóm (“vacant time, leisure”), from Proto-Germanic *t?m? (“vacant time, leisure”). Related to Old Norse tómr (“vacant, empty”).

Noun

toom (usually uncountable, plural tooms)

1. Vacant time, leisure.

References

• “toom” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Anagrams

• MOTO, moot, moto, moto-, tomo-

Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *t?m, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz.Doublet with Dutch team, from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to?m/
• Rhymes: -o?m

Noun

toom m or n (plural tomen, diminutive toompje n)

1. bridle, rein

   Je moet die jongens echt even in toom houden - You really need to keep those boys in check

2. a flock of birds (especially ducks, geese and swans)
3. frenulum

Anagrams

• moot

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *toomi, from Proto-Uralic *?ëme.

Noun

toom (genitive toome, partitive toome)

1. bird cherry

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• toomingas