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combe

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Noun — A valley, usually with trees and no river running through it.

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Etymology

This word came into English from Middle English coumbe, cumbe, which developed from Old English cumb, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kumbaz; compare Dutch kom (“bowl, basin”) and German Kump (“vessel”). It is related, through Proto-Indo-European *ḱumbʰ-, to Welsh cwm (“a hollow valley”), Ancient Greek κύμβη (kúmbē, “h...

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