lumbus

Etymology
Naturalized into medical English from the Latin.

Etymology
From, cognate with 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. The expected outcome of *-ndʰ- in Latin is /-nd-/: the /b/ can be explained as a secondary development from /dw/ (as in ) in a form *londwo-, which De Vaan derives from the u-stem. Sihler instead suggests that the /b/ can be explained by borrowing from -. Alternatively, borrowing from is also a possibility.

Noun

 * 1)  loin
 * 2)  lumbar
 * 3)  genitals