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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

umboth

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
um-both
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Agency.

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

Etymology

Borrowed from Norn umbod, ombod, from Old Norse umboð. Cognate with Icelandic umboð, Faroese umboð, Swedish ombud. Cognate with the first element of ombudsman (equivalent to umboth + -s- + man, “person of agency”).

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Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

umboths (plural)

Questions

What does umboth mean?
Agency.
Where does umboth come from?
It is traced to Old Norse.

How to pronounce umboth

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