PLUMPEN

Etymology

Verb

plumpen (third-person singular simple present plumpens, present participle plumpening, simple past and past participle plumpened)

(transitive) To make plump; to fatten.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

18 December 2024

ROOT

(noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; “thematic vowels are part of the stem”


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Coffee Trivia

The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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