pamp
/ˈpæmp/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.75 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Initialism of pathogen-associated molecular pattern.
Etymology
From Middle English pampen, from Middle Low German pampen (“to pamper oneself, live luxuriously”), from Old Saxon *pampōn, from Proto-West Germanic *pampōn, from Proto-Germanic *pampōną (“to swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *bamb- (“round object”). Cognate with West Frisian pampe (“to stuff, cram”), Dutch pampen (“to cram”), German Low German pampen (“to crush, pound, stuff oneself”), German bampfen, pampen, pampfen (“to cram, gobble, eat greedily”), Norwegian Nynorsk pampa (“to stuff oneself, cram”), Swedish pampen (“stuffed, swollen up”). Compare also Saterland Frisian pämpelje (“to nurture, care for, feed”), West Frisian pampelje (“to pamper”), Dutch pampelen, pamperen (“to cram, pamper”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: pampen, *pampōn, *pamp-, *bamb-
Usage
Inflected Forms
pamps (present, singular)
pamping (participle, present)
pamped (participle, past)
pamped (past)
pamps (plural)