toom

Meanings

Adjective

• Empty; bare.

Noun

• A piece of waste ground where rubbish is deposited.
• Vacant time, leisure.

Verb

• To empty; teem.

Origin

• From Middle English toom, tom, from Old English tōm, from Proto-Germanic *tōmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *doma-, *dema-. Cognate with Danish and Swedish tom, Icelandic tómur ("empty").
• From Middle English toom, tome, tom, from Old Norse tóm, from Proto-Germanic *tōmą. Related to Old Norse tómr.