Etymology

tump

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Today it means: A mound or hillock. Full definition →

Welsh twmp
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tump · noun, verb1

  1. Welsh · derived fromtwmp
  2. English todaytump

Compare Welsh twmp, twm; also Sicilian timpa.

tump · verb2

Possibly from tumpoke, or possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump".

tump · noun3

Apheresis of mattump, metump, possibly from a Penobscot descendant of Proto-Algonquian *wetempi (“head”).

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