Umbego

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To go around. intransitive, obsolete
  2. 2
    To go about; encompass; encircle; surround. obsolete, transitive

Etymology

From Middle English umbegon, from Old English ymbgān (“to go around, go about, surround”), from Proto-Germanic *umbi (“around”), *gāną (“to go”), equivalent to um- + bego, or umbe- + go.

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