different between umbe vs umber

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

English

Alternative forms

• umbre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French ombre (“umber”), from terre d'ombre (“dark ochre”), from Old French umbre (“shade, shadow”), from Latin umbra. Doublet of umbra.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??mb?/
• (General American) enPR: ?m?b?r, IPA^(key): /??mb?/
• Rhymes: -?mb?(?)
• Hyphenation: um?ber

Noun

umber (plural umbers)

1. A brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides.

2. Alternative form of umbrere
3. A grayling.
4. A dusky brown African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the shoebill and herons; a hamerkop.

Translations

Adjective

umber (not comparable)

1. Of a reddish brown colour, like that of the pigment.
   • 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay

     Their harps are of the umber shade / That hides the blush of waking day.

Translations

Verb

umber (third-person singular simple present umbers, present participle umbering, simple past and past participle umbered)

1. (transitive) To give a reddish-brown colour to.
   • 1807, Charles Hoyle, Exodus

     Armies o'er armies heap'd, the locusts came,
     Like clouds in autumn umbering all the sky […]

Derived terms

• burnt umber
• mottled umber
• umber moth

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• brume, umbre

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?um.ber/, [??mb?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?um.ber/, [?umb?r]

Noun

umber m (genitive umbr?); second declension

1. a kind of sheep

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

References

• umber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Manx

Etymology

Borrowed from English umber.

Noun

umber m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. umber