tumb

From Middle English tumben, tomben, from Old English tumbian (“to tumble, leap, dance”), from Proto-Germanic *tūmōną (“to turn round”). Cognate with Middle High German tumen (“to turn round”), Icelandic tumba (“to tumble”). See tumble.

• Rhymes: -ʌm

tumb (third-person singular simple present tumbs, present participle tumbing, simple past and past participle tumbed)

1. (intransitive, archaic) To tumble; jump; dance.

• tumble

Borrowed in the 19th century from written Middle High German tump, from Old High German tumb. The inherited form of this word is tumm (Upper German, archaic).

• IPA^(key): /tʊmp/

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tumb (strong nominative masculine singular tumber, comparative tumber, superlative am tumbsten or am tumbesten)

1. (rare, literary, dated) simple-minded; naive; oafish

• dumb

tumb (plural tumbes)

1. Alternative form of tombe (“tomb”)

tumb (plural tumbes)

1. (Northern) Alternative form of thombe (“thumb”)

tumb b (plural tumni ɦi)

1. iroko, Milicia excelsa

• Bakabima, Koulon Stéphane, Nicole, Jacques (2018) Nawdm-French Dictionary‎^[1], SIL International

From Proto-West Germanic *dumb, see also Old Saxon dumb, Old English dumb, Old Norse dumbr, Gothic 𐌳𐌿𐌼𐌱𐍃 (dumbs).

tumb

1. dumb
2. stupid

• Middle High German: tump
  • German: dumm (Central German), tumb (Upper German, archaic)
  • Hunsrik: dumm
  • Luxembourgish: domm