v.
'feel sick'
(Modern English )An ON etymon is sometimes postulated for this v. (so MED, Anderson), which first appears in English in the 14c., though the Scandinavian verbs with which it is connected are only attested later: e.g. the sole citation of OIcel vamla 'to get sick' in ONP is from c. 1500 (on its relationship to the modern verbs, see further Mag.); cp. also Dan vamle 'to vomit'. Related to Latin vomĕre, Greek ϝεμ- , ἐμεῖν 'to vomit'.
PGmc Ancestor
*wem-
Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)
vamla 'to get sick'
(ONP vamla (vb.))
Other Scandinavian Reflexes
Icel vamla, Norw vamla, Dan vamle
OE Cognate
Phonological and morphological markers
Summary category
BB1
The earliest ME attestations from the 14c. are in OED sense (1a), MED sense (a) 'to feel nausea' (on possible additional sources for other senses, see OED). A v. wamble 'to feel faint or sick' survives in various dial of MnE (OED, EDD).
Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus
Pat 300