Hit: origin of the word cwm

[Judy Seck <jseck@LSD.K12.MI.US>]

Hello,

What an amazing group! I already have my answer. The origin of the word cwm
is welsh.

The OED Online has this for etymology:

[Welsh cwm (cf. COOMB2).]
    A valley; in Phys. Geogr., a bowl-shaped hollow partly enclosed by steep
walls lying at the head of a valley or on a mountain slope and formed
originally by a glacier; a cirque.

  1853 MRS. GASKELL Ruth I. vii. 170 Some 'Cwm', or hollow. 1882 GEIKIE
Text-bk. Geol. III. II. ii. 407 Several hundred feet below, in the corrie or
cwm at the bottom, lies the re-cemented glacier. 1933 Geogr. Jrnl. LXXXII.
202 The snow-patches are cwm-ice masses occupying deep scallops in an
elevated position of the old erosion-surface. 1936 Nature 19 Dec. 1041/2 Its
glaciers..widened their heads into cwms and gave to the basin its only
fiord. 1951 Times 27 Nov. 5/7 While 'cwm' may occur..purely as a
place-name..technically the word is restricted to the huge cauldron-shaped
hollows found high up on heavily glaciated slopes. 1953 J. HUNT Ascent of
Everest ii. 14 When Mallory saw it..in 1921, he named it the 'Western Cwm'.
1957 G. E. HUTCHINSON Treat. Limnol. I. i. 59 Such amphitheaters are called
cirques in the French-speaking parts of the Alps, Kars in the
German-speaking regions, cwms in Wales, and corries in Scotland. All four
terms have achieved some degree of international usage, but the first seems
to have been the most widely employed.

Thanks so much!!!!
Judy Seck           jseck@lsd.k12.mi.us
Teacher & Media Specialist
Willow Elementary School
Lansing, MI 48915

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