Lumpen

Bedeutung (English)

rag, tatter, shred

Synonyms

Fetzen

Lappen

Tuch

Putzlappen

Wischlappen

Putztuch

Wischtuch

Pfoten

Taugenichts

Trödel

Tücher

Flicken

Hadern

Plurren

Feudel

Abfall

Alttextilien

Fähnchen

Hader

Klamotten

klauen

Lump

Müll

Dialekte

Basel-Landschaft

hattle

Basel-Landschaft

lumpe

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Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ˈlʊmpən/

Etymologie (English)

Inherited from Mittelhochdeutsch: lumpe

Cognate with Deutsch: Lappen

Cognate with Englisch: limp

Cognate with Sanskrit: लम्बते

Cognate with Latein: limbus

In summary

From Middle High German lumpe. Lump (“cad”) is originally the same word. Compare German Lappen (“cloth, rag”) as well as the now obsolete verbs lampen (“to hang limply”), lumpen (“to hang limply, to limp”) and English limp, all probably from Proto-Germanic *limpaną (“to glide, go, suit”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lemb-, *(s)lembʰ- (“to hang loosely, hang limply”). Compare Sanskrit लम्बते (lambate, “hangs down”) and लम्ब (lamba, “a perpendicular”), as well as Latin limbus (“edge, border”).