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Humpen

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(Inglés)

tankard (massy container, usually for beer)

Cantón de Basilea-Campiña

meiel

Datos proporcionados por: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈhʊmpən/

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In summary

16th century, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Middle Low German hump (“heap, lump”), Dutch homp (“chunk, gobbet”), English hump, all possibly from a Proto-West Germanic *hump. Within High German it was originally restricted to the colonial dialects (i.e. East Central German), which might suggest a borrowing from the Middle Low German form (though the -mp- is regular). As none of the Germanic words is attested before 1550, any further derivation must remain tentative; but one compares Ancient Greek κύμβη (kúmbē), Middle Irish comm.