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Tumble Is The Word..
Tumble Is The Word..
From Middle English tumblen (“to fall over and over again, tumble”),
frequentative of Middle English tumben (“to fall, leap, dance”), from
Old English tumbian, from Proto-Germanic *tūmōną (“to turn, rotate”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch tumelen (whence Dutch tuimelen); Middle
Low German tumelen, tummelen; and German taumeln.
Pronunciation
enPR: tŭmʹbəl, IPA(key): /ˈtʌmbl̩ /
Audio (US)
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Rhymes: -ʌmbəl
Hyphenation: tum‧ble
Noun
tumble (plural tumbles)