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COMBE, or COOMB

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 751 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COMBE, or COOMB , a See also:term particularly in use in See also:south-western See also:England for a See also:short closed-in valley, either on the See also:side of a down or See also:running up from the See also:sea. It appears in See also:place-names as a termination, e.g. See also:Wiveliscombe, See also:Ilfracombe, and as a prefix, e.g. Combemartin. The See also:etymology of the word is obscure, but " hollow " seems a See also:common meaning to similar forms in many See also:languages. In See also:English "combe " or " cumb " is an obsolete word for a " hollow See also:vessel," and the like meaning attached to See also:Teutonic forms kumm and kumme. The Welsh cwm, in place-names, means hollow or valley, with which may be compared cum in many Scots place-names. The See also:Greek K()µ(317 also means a hollow vessel, and there is a See also:French See also:dialect word combe meaning a little valley.

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