VÖMB

(gen. vambar), f. ‘womb’, belly, paunch; kýla vömbina, to fill the belly.

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f., gen. vambar; [Ulf. wamba = κοιλία; A. S. wamb; Engl. womb; Scot. wame; Germ. wamme, wanst; Lat. venter; Gr. ὀμφαλός]:—a womb, belly, but mostly in a low sense, especially of beasts (the Engl. womb is in Icel. kviðr); þenja vömbina, to fill the belly. Fms. viii. 436: kýla vómb sína á miði ok mungáti, Fs. 4, Fas. i. 493; ok aum í vömb, Bjarn. (in a verse); sauðar-vömb, kýr-vömb, gor-vömb, Vambar-ljóð, the name of a lay, Maurer’s Volksagen 317.

COMPDS: Vambardalr, Vambarhólmr.