Kummer

• As a German and Alemannic German surname, from the noun Kummer (“distress, grief”).
• Also as a German and Swiss German surname, from a derivative of the medieval personal name Kunemar, from Old High German kuoni (“bold”) + mari (“fame”).
• As a Slavic surname, Germanized from Upper Sorbian Komor, Komar, from komor (“mosquito, gnat”), see Kommer. Also sometimes Germanized from Kumer.

Kummer

1. A surname from German.

• Kummerian
• Kummer ring
• Kummer's theorem
• Kummer surface
• Kummer variety

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Kummer”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 365.

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• IPA^(key): [ˈkumɛr]

Kummer m anim (female equivalent Kummerová)

1. a male surname

From Middle High German kumber (“debris, rubble, obstruction, distress, encumbrance, confiscation”). Cognate with Luxembourgish Kommer, Dutch kommer, Old Frisian kummer.

• Probably from Old French *combre (“obstruction, barrier”), combrer (“to hinder”), from Medieval Latin combrus (“barricade”), usually said to be from either Latin cumulus (“heap”) or Gaulish *komberū << Proto-Celtic *kombereti (“to bring together”) << *kom- +‎ *bereti (“to bear”).^[1][2] Compare Middle French combre, Medieval Latin combrus, English cumber.
• Alternatively from Proto-West Germanic *kumbr, from Proto-Germanic *kumbraz (“burden, trouble, sorrow”).^[3]

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʊmɐ/
• Rhymes: -ʊmɐ

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Kummer m (strong, genitive Kummers, no plural)

1. grief, sorrow

   Synonym: Leid

2. (colloquial) trouble

   Synonyms: Ärger, Problem

• Kummerbund (related only by popular etymology)
• kümmern
• Kümmernis

• Leiden n
• Sorge f
• Trauer f
• Traurigkeit f

• “Kummer” in Duden online
• “Kummer” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Middle High German kamer, from Old High German kamara, a borrowing from Latin camera. Compare German Kammer.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkumɐ/

Kummer f (plural Kummeren)

1. chamber
2. bedroom