plim
Translingual
See also
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪm
Verb
plim (third-person singular simple present plims, present participle plimming, simple past and past participle plimmed)
- (chiefly South Wales) To swell or inflate; to fill up.
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 32:
- "Don't that make your bosom plim?"
Albanian
Alternative forms
- plym
Etymology
A deverbative in -i(m), based on an unattested verb *plyej, from Proto-Albanian *plānja (“to fill”), from Proto-Indo-European *plē (“full”).[1]
Declension
Related terms
References
- Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “plim”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 334
Haitian Creole
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plim/
Spanish
Alternative forms
Further reading
- “plim”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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