The story
- Proto-Germanic · derived from*kumbaz
- Old Saxon · derived from*kumba
- Middle Low German · derived fromkump“wooden bowl”
- English todayKump
* As a German surname for a bowl maker, from Middle Low German kump (“wooden bowl”), from Old Saxon *kumba, from Proto-Germanic *kumbaz. Variants of this derivation are found in Austria, Slovenia, and Croatia. * Also as a German surname, Americanized from Kumpf.
Words from the same roots
Proto-Germanic*kumbaz all →
coomb
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.