Ruum
See also: ruum
Limburgish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁuːm/
- Hyphenation: Ruum
- Rhymes: -uːm
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *rūm, from Proto-Germanic *rūmą.
Alternative forms
- ruimte (Maastrichtian)
- ruumde (Valkenburg)
- ruumdje (dialects where palatalization occurred)
- ruumte (widespread)
Noun
Ruum m (plural Rüüm, diminutive Rüümke or Rümmke)
- (Eupen, Krefeld, physics) space
- (same dialects) capacity, volume, room
- (same dialects) room, chamber
- (same dialects) place, area, field, room, space
- Synonym: Plaatsch
Etymology 2
Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *hrōmi, from Proto-Germanic *hrōmiz. Likely through either Middle Dutch or Middle High German as the expected native term would be "Room".
Noun
Ruum m (uncountable)
Low German
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Low German and Old Saxon rūm, from Proto-West Germanic *rūm, from Proto-Germanic *rūmą, from Proto-Indo-European *rewh₁- (“open space, land”).
Noun
Ruum m (plural Rüüm) (German Low German)
Derived terms
- Elv-Werser-Ruum
- Giff mi Ruum!
- Hill-Ruum
- op 'n Ruum
- Ruum-Inholt
- Ruumfohrt
- Ruuminholt
- Ruumschipp
- Ruumsond
- Ruumstatschoon
- Ruumtemperatur
- Schengen-Ruum
- Tietruum
- Weltruum
Related terms
- Magellan-Ruumsond
- Mischoon in'n Weltruum
- ruum
- Ruum-Tiet-Relativität
- Ruumfohrtmischoon
- rümen
- Weltruumfohrt
- Weltruumverdrag
Descendants
References
- Der neue SASS: Plattdeutsches Wörterbuch, Plattdeutsch - Hochdeutsch, Hochdeutsch - Plattdeutsch. Plattdeutsche Rechtschreibung, sixth revised edition (2011, →ISBN, Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster)
Saterland Frisian
Etymology
Inherited from Old Frisian *rūm, from Proto-West Germanic *rūm. More at English room.
Noun
Ruum m