Middle English edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old English tumbian (to tumble) (from Proto-Germanic *tūmōną (to turn, rotate)) and Anglo-Norman toumber (to fall) (Old French tumber), itself perhaps from the same Germanic verb via Frankish.

Verb edit

tumben (third-person singular simple present tumbeth, present participle tumbende, tumbynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle tumbed)

  1. to fall, tumble
Alternative forms edit
Descendants edit
  • English: tumb

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

tumben (third-person singular simple present tumbeth, present participle tumbende, tumbynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle tumbed)

  1. Alternative form of tomben (to inter)

Spanish edit

Verb edit

tumben

  1. inflection of tumbar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative