toom

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Definition von toom im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

Vacant time, leisure

A piece of waste ground where rubbish is shot

To empty

Empty

Etymologie

() From Middle English toom, tom, from Old English tōm (“empty”), from Proto-Germanic *tōmaz, *tōmjaz (“free, available, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *doma- (“to tame”), *dema- (“to build”). Cognate with Danish and Swedish tom (“empty, vacant”), Icelandic tómur (“empty”).