dumm

Meaning

dumb, stupid

Frequency

A2
Dialects

Aargau

Aargau

bireweich

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

bleed

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

dumm

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

straudumm

Zürich

Zürich

nöd ganz bache

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/dʊm/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German tump, from Old High German tumb, from Proto-West Germanic *dumb, from Proto-Germanic *dumbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-. The modern consonantism is Central and Low German (compare Middle Low German dumb, dumm, from Old Saxon dumb). The rare literary variant tumb is a poetic archaism directly borrowed from Middle High German; the expected form of this source is early modern German tumm (now obsolete).

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