wem

Meaning

Noun

• A spot, stain, or mark; a (moral) blemish or fault.

Origin

• From Middle English wem, wemme, from Old English wamm, from Proto-Germanic *wammaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wemh₁-. Cognate with Icelandic vamm ("loss, damage"), Latin vomō ("vomit") (whence English vomit), Ancient Greek ἐμέω ("I spew") (English emesis), Lithuanian vemti ("to vomit"), Sanskrit वमति ("to vomit").