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Etymology
From Middle High German kübel (“wooden vessel; this vessel as a measure of grain”), from Old High German miluhchubilī (“small milk can”), from Old Occitan cubel (“small vat”), from Latin cupa (“tub, cask, vat”).[1] Compare German Kübel.[2][3]
Pronunciation
Noun
köböl (plural köblök)
- (obsolete) a measure of volume for grain crop, lumpy material, or liquid (comprising 62, 94, or 125 liters,[5] or 64–125 liters, or (of wine) 12–42 liters[6])
- (obsolete) a measure of land area, which can hold the above amount of seed grain, approx. 4000–4300 square meters, i.e., approx. one acre
Declension
Derived terms
- köb (“cube”, the third power)
See also
References
- ^ köböl in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
- ^ Kluge, Friedrich and Walther Mitzka. Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, p. 408
- ^ Pronk-Tiethoff, Saskia. The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic, p. 133
- ^ Tóth, Etelka, editor (2017), Magyar helyesírási szótár: A magyar helyesírás szabályai tizenkettedik kiadása szerint [Dictionary of Hungarian orthography: according to the 12th edition of the Rules of Hungarian orthography], Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, →ISBN. Online version
- ^ Kiss, Gábor. Régi magyar szavak magyarázó adatbázisa (’Explanatory database of old Hungarian words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2012. →ISBN
- ^ Ortutay, Gyula (ed.). Magyar néprajzi lexikon ’Hungarian Encyclopedia of Ethnography’. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1977–1982.
Further reading
- köböl in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN