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Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *kumbaz; liken Dutch kom (“bowl, basin”), Welsh cwm (“a hollow valley”), Sanskrit कुम्भ (kumbha, “a pot, jug”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cumb m
- a hollow, narrow valley, combe
- In cumb, of ðam cumbe ― in a valley, of the valley
- a measure of volume (uncertain for liquid but dry is said to be 4 bushels)
- Cumb fulne líðes aloþ, and cumb fulne Welisces aloþ ― a coomb full of mild ale and a coomb full of Welsh ale
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