Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A valley, often wooded and often with no river · A cirque.
From earlier coom(e), coomb(e), from Middle English *coumbe, *cumbe, *combe, from Old English cumb, comb (“a low place enclosed with hills, dale, valley”), of obscure origin. Likely an adaptation of Old English cumb (“cup, basin; a liquid measure”) compare Dutch kom (“bowl, basin”), German Kumpf (“vessel, container”), but could also possibly be from, or influenced by, Celtic or Anglo-Norman/French; it is currently unclear, and may additionally be an example of a Wanderwort. Compare Welsh cwm (“a hollow valley”), Anglo-Norman cumbe (“a valley, a hollow”), Ancient Greek κύμβη (kúmbē, “hollow”), Sanskrit कुम्भ (kumbha, “a pot, jug”), etc. through Proto-Indo-European *ḱumbʰ-.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
{
"templates": [
{
"name": "inh",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "*coumbe"
},
"expansion": "Middle English *coumbe"
},
{
"name": "inh",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "cumb"
},
"expansion": "Old English cumb"
},
{
"name": "unc",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"title": "obscure"
},
"expansion": "obscure"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "cumb",
"t": "cup, basin; a liquid measure"
},
"expansion": "Old English cumb (“cup, basin; a liquid measure”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "kom",
"3": "",
"4": "bowl, basin"
},
"expansion": "Dutch kom (“bowl, basin”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Kumpf",
"3": "",
"4": "vessel, container"
},
"expansion": "German Kumpf (“vessel, container”)"
},
{
"name": "der",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cel",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Celtic"
},
{
"name": "der",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "xno",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Anglo-Norman"
},
{
"name": "der",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "French"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "cy",
"2": "cwm",
"t": "a hollow valley"
},
"expansion": "Welsh cwm (“a hollow valley”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "xno",
"2": "cumbe",
"t": "a valley, a hollow"
},
"expansion": "Anglo-Norman cumbe (“a valley, a hollow”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "κύμβη",
"t": "hollow"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek κύμβη (kúmbē, “hollow”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "sa",
"2": "कुम्भ",
"t": "a pot, jug"
},
"expansion": "Sanskrit कुम्भ (kumbha, “a pot, jug”)"
},
{
"name": "der",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*ḱumbʰ-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *ḱumbʰ-"
}
],
"links": [
[
"*coumbe",
"Reconstruction:Middle English/coumbe"
],
[
"*cumbe",
"Reconstruction:Middle English/cumbe"
],
[
"*combe",
"Reconstruction:Middle English/combe"
],
[
"cumb",
"cumb#Old_English"
],
[
"comb",
"comb#Old_English"
],
[
"cumb",
"cumb#Old_English"
],
[
"kom",
"kom#Dutch"
],
[
"Kumpf",
"Kumpf#German"
],
[
"Wanderwort",
"Wanderwort#English"
],
[
"cwm",
"cwm#Welsh"
],
[
"cumbe",
"cumbe#Old_French"
],
[
"κύμβη",
"κύμβη#Ancient_Greek"
],
[
"कुम्भ",
"कुम्भ#Sanskrit"
],
[
"*ḱumbʰ-",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/ḱumbʰ-"
]
],
"references": [],
"descendants": [],
"lexical": [
{
"pos": "noun",
"glosses": [
"A valley, often wooded and often with no river",
"A cirque."
],
"tags": [],
"recordId": "1e880857d87a3625f296eb1725b7ebe38c797fea6b48e16fc7b6d4d2fc4c915c",
"rawRecordSha256": "f18905fae8e2ea8067ae612ca12f4b881778c001a1abfd2c99082e3f5ed66f6f",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 570712
}
],
"omittedAuxiliaryFields": {
"templates": 0,
"links": 0,
"references": 0,
"descendants": 0,
"lexicalRecords": 0,
"lexicalSenses": 0,
"glosses": 0
}
}