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Where does “umens” come from?

umens (Latin) comes from Latin umeo, from Proto-Indo-European wegʷ- — wet, moist.

umens (Latin): being wet; moist, wet

Definitions

  1. being wet; moist, wet

Ancestry of “umens”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinumeoI am moist, wet or damp
2Proto-Indo-Europeanwegʷ-wet, moist
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