coomb
English
/kuːm/
noun
Definitions
- An old English measure of corn (e.g., wheat), equal to half a quarter or 4 bushels.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English *comb inherited from Old English cumb (narrow valley, hollow, a vessel, valley, combe, a liquid measure) inherited from Proto-Germanic *kumbaz (bowl, vessel) derived from Latin cumba (boat, tomb of stone) derived from Ancient Greek κύμβη (bowl, boat, cup, hollow of a vessel).
Origin
Ancient Greek
κύμβη
Gloss
bowl, boat, cup, hollow of a vessel
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Classifier
Kanji
杯
Emoji
🍜
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Comar English
- coma English
- cwm English
- coma Latin
- cumba Latin
- cymba Latin
- Koma German
- Kumpf German
- coma Italian
- comateux French
- κύμβη Ancient Greek
- κῶμα Ancient Greek
- *ḱumbʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- koma Norwegian Bokmål
- coma Portuguese
- *kumbaz Proto-Germanic
- koma Norwegian Nynorsk
- cumb Old English
- *comb Middle English
- coumbe Middle English
- koma Danish
- coma Catalan, Valencian
- cwm Welsh
- cymoedd Welsh
- *kumpf Old High German
- kumpf Middle High German
- *kumbā Proto-Celtic