kumbl

Old Norse

Alternative forms

  • kuml, kubl
  • ᚴᚢᛘᛒᛚ (kumbl), ᚴᚢᛘᛚ (kuml), ᚴᚢᛒᛚ (kubl) — runic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kumblą. Cognate with Old English cumbol (“sign, banner”).

Noun

kumbl n

  1. a burial monument, cairn
  2. a mark, sign, badge

Descendants

  • Icelandic: kuml
  • Faroese: kumli m
  • Old Swedish: kumbel

Further reading

  • Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “kuml”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press
  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “kumbl”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
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