kummel

• kümmel

From German Kümmel.

kummel (countable and uncountable, plural kummels)

1. A German caraway liqueur.
   • 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 140:

     ‘The best kümmel comes in those bear-shaped bottles. It comes from Russia.’

18th-century borrowing from German Kümmel, which see. Doublet of komijn.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʏ.məl/

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• Hyphenation: kum‧mel
• Rhymes: -ʏməl

kummel m (uncountable)

1. caraway (Carum carvi)

   Synonym: karwij

2. kummel (caraway-based spirits)

• komijn (“cumin”)

From German Kümmel.

• IPA^(key): /ky.mɛl/

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kummel m (plural kummels)

1. kummel

• “kummel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Inherited from Old Swedish kumbel, from Old Norse kumbl, from Proto-Germanic *kumblą.

kummel n

1. cairn

• gravkummel
• stenkummel

• båk
• varde

Dialectal variant of kol (“coal”) + mule (“mouth”). Cognate of Danish kulmule.

kummel c

1. (ichthyology) European hake, Merluccius merluccius

• kummel in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• kummel in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• kummel in Svenskt nautiskt lexikon (1920)