Um | pfx | This prefix was once as common to English as it still is to German verbs and was a prefix in many ME. verbs ("ymb"; umb; umbe) meaning "around", around" "about", as umstand to stand round, guard; umbeset to beset, surround, best on every side; umbego to go around, encircle, UMBETHINK. Um is a reduced form of umb- was ad. ON, umb, corresponding to OE ymb, ymbe, prefix, ymbe prep. umbe- repr. OE. ymbe is partly an extension of umb partly a combination of um- with "be-", Latin ambi is a cognate. |
Umbeclead | vb | To clothe, wrap up, swathe |
Umbeclip | vb | To surround, encircle, clutch, hug, grip around, embrace, clasp around. |
Umbedelve | vb | Dig around |
Umbegang | vb | To surround, go around. |
Umbego | vb | To go around, to encircle, to surround with something. |
Um-be-grip | vb | To sieze or grip round. |
Um-be-set | vb | To beset on every side. |
Umbeshadow | vb | To shade around. |
Umbeshear | vb | To circumcise. |
Umbestound | adv | At times, sometimes, after a short time; umbestoundingly. |
Umbethink | vb | To think about, to think about oneself, consider, remember, to call to mind. Also: "Um-be-thinke" - to bethink one's self of all surroundings (or circumstances), to remember. |
Umbethinking | n | Consideration, recollection, recalling, reflection. |
Umbeweave | vb | To wrap around. |
Umbewhile | adv | After a time, at times, sometimes. |
Umest | adj | Of clothes: uppermost or outermost, applied to the coverlet of a bed, claimed by the priest as requisite on the death of a parishioner. 2. of things or places: lying highest or uppermost. 3. most important or prominent. |
Umgamg | n | Circuit, circumference. |
Umgo | vb | To go around, encompass. |
Umset | vb | To invest, surround. |
Umstroke | n | Circumference, edge. |
Umthink | vb | To think, consider, reflect. |
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