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
  • Swedish: kummel
    • → Finnish: kummeli

Further reading

• Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “kuml”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “kumbl”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive