Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink. · The lowest part of a mineshaft into which water drains. · A completely flooded cave passage, sometimes passable by diving. · The crankcase or oil reservoir of an internal combustion engine.
Of a cave passage, to end in a sump, or to fill completely with water on occasion.
From Middle English sompe, either from Middle Dutch somp, sump or Middle Low German sump from Old Saxon *sump, from Proto-West Germanic *sump, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sumpaz. Doublet of swamp.
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