Etymograph

English

kummel

Kummel comes from Old High German kumil, from Proto-West Germanic *kumil ‘caraway, cumin (seed)’, and ultimately from Ancient Greek κύμῑνον.

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEκύμῑνον‘cumin’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcumīnum‘cumin’
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*kumīnas *kumī‘caraway, cumin’reconstructed
  4. Proto-West Germanic, derivedc. 200–500 CE*kumil‘caraway, cumin (seed)’reconstructed
  5. Old High Germanc. 750–1050kumil
  6. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350kümel
  7. Germanc. 1650–presentKümmel
  8. Englishearliest quotation 1929kummel

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEκύμῑνον‘cumin’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcumīnum‘cumin’
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*kumīnas *kumī‘caraway, cumin’reconstructed
  4. Proto-West Germanic, derivedc. 200–500 CE*kumil‘caraway, cumin (seed)’reconstructed
  5. Old High Germanc. 750–1050kumil
  6. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350kümel
  7. Germanc. 1650–presentKümmel
  8. Englishearliest quotation 1929kummel

Earliest quotation: 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms: “‘The best kümmel comes in those bear-shaped bottles. It…”

Linked words

through Latin cumīnum ‘cumin’

cumin, 1 more

Today it means

noun A German caraway liqueur.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Ancient Greek κύμῑνον / kummel

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