Lumpen

Meaning

Concepts

rag, tatter, shred

Lump

cad, scoundrel (mean, ignoble, or dirty male person)

Basel-Landschaft

hattle

Basel-Landschaft

lumpe

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈlʊmpən/

Inherited from Middle High German

Cognate with German

Cognate with English

Cognate with Sanskrit

Cognate with Latin

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”).