kubel

From Proto-Finnic *kupla (“bubble”), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kupla. Cognates include Finnish kupla (“bubble”), Ingrian kupla (“heap; crest”), Karelian kubla (“debris on the water”), Livvi kublu (“swamp”), Ludian kubl (“swim bladder”); Southern Sami gåbloe (“lung”), Inari Sami koble (“perch roe”), Skolt Sami kåbllad (“to float”), Eastern Mari кувыл (kuvyl, “rain bubbles on water”) and Northern Mansi [script needed] (χɨwl-, “to swim / row downstream”). Possibly also Eastern Khanty комԓәӈ (komłəṇ, “bladder; blister”) and Hungarian hólyag (“bladder; blister; bubble”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkub̥el/, [ˈkub̥el]
• Rhymes: -ubel
• Hyphenation: ku‧bel

kubel (genitive kubla, partitive kupla)

1. blister (sudden onset of a small local swelling, a bump on the skin)
2. water bubble

• kubel in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “kubel”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

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• (Greater Poland):
  • (Kuyavia) IPA^(key): /ˈku.bɛl/
  • (Northern Greater Poland) IPA^(key): /ˈku.bɛl/
  • (Eastern Greater Poland) IPA^(key): /ˈku.bɛl/
  • (Southern Greater Poland) IPA^(key): /ˈku.bɛl/

kubel m inan (diminutive kublik)

1. (Northern Greater Poland, Eastern Greater Poland, Southern Greater Poland, Kuyavia) small pigsty; closed feeder for fattening pigs

• Oskar Kolberg (1867) “kubel”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 272
• Oskar Kolberg (1877) “kubel”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 30
• Oskar Kolberg (1877) “kubel”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 34