tombe
French
noun
Definitions
- tomb, grave
Etymology
Inherited from Old French tombe inherited from Latin tumba (small mound) derived from Ancient Greek τύμβος (swell, tomb, grave, burial mound, a sepulchral mound, small mound, funeral mound).
Origin
Ancient Greek
τύμβος
Gloss
swell, tomb, grave, burial mound, a sepulchral mound, small mound, funeral mound
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- tomb English
- tombal English
- tombic English
- tombless English
- tomblike English
- tombstone English
- untomb English
- tumba Latin
- Tumbe German
- intombare Italian
- oltretomba Italian
- tomba Italian
- tombale Italian
- tumba Spanish, Castilian
- κατά Ancient Greek
- τυμβαύλης Ancient Greek
- τύμβα Ancient Greek
- τύμβος Ancient Greek
- *tewH- Proto-Indo-European
- *tewh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *tum- Proto-Indo-European
- tumba Portuguese
- tombe Middle English
- tuama Irish
- tombe Old French
- tumbe Old French
- tombo Esperanto
- tomba Catalan, Valencian
- τούμπα Greek (modern)
- katakomba Indonesian
- tombe Norman
- tumbe xno
- tombe Walloon
- tonm Antillean Creole