Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse trumba.

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trumba (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative trumbaði, supine trumbað)

  1. (intransitive) to drum
    Synonym: tromma

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Noun

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trumba f (genitive singular trumbu, nominative plural trumbur)

  1. drum
    Synonyms: tromma, bumba

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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Probably a borrowing from Old Saxon *trumba, from Proto-West Germanic *trumbā (trumpet, tuba, trombone), related to Old Dutch trumba, *trumpa, Old High German trumpa, trumba, ultimately imitative.

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trumba f (genitive trumbu)

  1. pipe
  2. trumpet

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trumba

  1. to trumpet

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References

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  • trumba”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press