umbworld

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umbworld

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From umb- (“around, about”) + world, a calque of German Umwelt (early 19th c.). Compare Dutch omwereld, Swedish omvärld, etc., also from the German.

noun umbworlds

neologism The surrounding world; the world or sphere about one; the environment. Religion has grown out of our folk knowledge, out of our group explanations of the how’s and why’s of the umbworld.

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"umbworld." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/umbworld. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{umbworld_2026,
  title = {umbworld},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/umbworld},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}