| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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Appendix I
Indo-European Roots |
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| ENTRY: | wem - |
| DEFINITION: | To vomit. Oldest form *wem1-. 1. wamble, from Middle English wam(e)len, to feel nausea, stagger, from a Scandinavian source probably akin to Old Norse vamla, qualm, and Danish vamle, to become sick, from Germanic *wam-. 2. vomit; nux vomica, from Latin vomere, to vomit. 3. emesis, emetic, from Greek emein, to vomit. (Pokorny  em- 1146.) |
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