Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA tub or vat, especially used in brewing. · An old English measure of corn (e.g., wheat), equal to half a quarter or 4 bushels.
From Middle English *coumb, *comb, *cumb (> Scots cumb, coom (“tub, cistern”)), from Old English cumb (“a vessel; a liquid measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *kumb, from Proto-Germanic *kumbaz (“bowl, vessel”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve”). Cognate with Dutch kom (“basin, bowl”), German Kumpf (“bowl”).
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- Inherited-form mention*coumbenm
- Cognate mentioncumbsco
- Inherited-form mentioncumbang · a vessel; a liquid measure
- Inherited-form mention*kumbgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*kumbazgem-pro · bowl, vessel
- Derivation mention*gew-ine-pro · to bend, curve
- Cognate mentionkomnl · basin, bowl
- Cognate mentionKumpfde · bowl
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