Etymograph

English

POUM

POUM comes from Catalan POUM.

  1. Catalanc. 1500–presentPOUM
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1938same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

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  1. Catalanc. 1500–presentPOUM
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1938same form

Earliest quotation: 1938, George Orwell pseudonym; Eric Arthur Bla, Homage to Catalonia: “We had got to defend the P.O.U.M. buildings if…”

Every English word from Catalan POUM

Today it means

name Workers' Party of Marxist Unification, an anti-Stalinist, revolutionary, communist party formed in Spain in 1935, which was active during the Spanish Civil War.

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Etymograph / Catalan POUM / POUM

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