means The organ in female mammals where a fertilized egg implants and an offspring develops before birth; the uterus.

from From Old English 'wamb' (also 'womb'), meaning 'belly, stomach, or uterus' — at first any rounded inner cavity, not just the gestational one. It has Germanic cousins: Old Norse 'vomb,' Gothic 'wamba,' and modern German 'Wampe' (a paunch or potbelly). For centuries the word swung between 'belly' and 'birthplace' before settling, narrowing from the whole abdominal interior down to the single room where life is grown.