kumbl

Old Norse

Alternative forms
  • kuml, kubl
  • ᚴᚢᛘᛒᛚ (kumbl), ᚴᚢᛘᛚ (kuml), ᚴᚢᛒᛚ (kubl) — runic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kumblą. Cognate with Old English cumbol (“sign, banner”).

Noun

kumbl n

  1. a burial monument, cairn
  2. a mark, sign, badge

Descendants
  • Icelandic: kuml
  • Old Swedish: kumbel

References
  • “kumbl”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “kuml” in: Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon — An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)
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