ὀμφαλός
Ancient Greek
noun
Definitions
- (anatomy) navel
- umbilical cord
- anything shaped like a navel, hence:
- centre or middle point
- (botany) centre of a plant, containing the seed vessel
- centre of an army, properly the point at which an army is divided into two wings
- (architecture) keystone of an arched vault
- (at Corycus) vault, tomb
Etymology
Derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₃m̥bʰ-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₃m̥bʰ-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- navel English
- navelless English
- navelwort English
- omphalo- English
- omphalophobia English
- subnavel English
- umbilicus English
- *umbilīculus Latin
- *umbulicus Latin
- umbilīcus Latin
- ombelico Italian
- ombligo Spanish, Castilian
- ὀμφαλόεις Ancient Greek
- *h₃m̥bʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₃nobʰilos Proto-Indo-European
- *h₃nobʰis Proto-Indo-European
- *nabalô Proto-Germanic
- eorþnafola Old English
- nafola Old English
- नभ्य Sanskrit
- नाभि Sanskrit
- navel Middle English
- nafli Old Norse
- navle Danish
- navlestreng Danish
- umbiliko Esperanto
- नाभि Hindi
- नाभिक Hindi
- beligo Galician
- embigo Galician
- buric Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- నాభి Telugu
- *nabulō gmw-pro
- umbiigo Old Portuguese
- નાભિ Gujarati
- buric Aromanian
- embeligru Asturian
- नाभि Marathi
- umbriçon Friulian
- *Hnábʰyam Proto-Indo-Aryan
- *Hnā́bʰiṣ Proto-Indo-Aryan
- nabis Old Prussian