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Humpen

Senso

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sinonimi

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(Inglese)

tankard (massy container, usually for beer)

Canton Basilea Campagna

meiel

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Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈhʊmpən/

Affine olandese

Affine inglese

Affine greco antico

Affine irlandese medio

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.