Meaning
dumb, stupid
Concepts
Synonyms
stupid
mit großen Eiern
bedeppert
unintelligent
nicht ganz dicht
stupide
Translations
Frequency
Dialects
Aargau
bireweich
Basel-Landschaft
bleed
Basel-Landschaft
dumm
Basel-Landschaft
straudumm
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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