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
• Old Swedish: kumbel
  • Swedish: kummel
    • → Finnish: kummeli

References

• “kumbl”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “kuml” in: Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon — An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)