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ramson

/ˈɹæmsən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.41 in modern English

Syllables
ram-son
IPA
/ˈɹæmsən/
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A plant, Allium ursinum, a wild relative of chives and garlic.

Etymology

Back-formation from ramsons; compare Middle English ramson (originally plural, taken as singular); Old English hramesan, plural of hramsa (“onion, broad-leafed garlic”), from Proto-West Germanic *hramusō, from Proto-Germanic *hramusô (“onion, leek”), from Proto-Indo-European *kermus-, *kremus- (“wild garlic”). Cognate with Scots ramps (“wild garlic”), Dutch rams (“ramson”), Danish rams (“ramson”), Swedish ramslök (“wild garlic”). See buckrams.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: *hramusō, *hramusô, *kermus-

Inflected Forms

ramsons (plural) ramps (alternative, Scotland) ramsh (alternative, Scotland)

Frequently Paired Words

ramp

Synonyms

buckram wild garlic

Rhymes With

samson sampson

Questions

How do you pronounce ramson?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɹæmsən/.
What does ramson mean?
A plant, Allium ursinum, a wild relative of chives and garlic.
Where does ramson come from?
It is traced to Proto-West Germanic.

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