Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kumīn

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cumīnum.

Noun

*kumīn m^[1]

caraway, cumin
Synonyms: *kumī, *kumil

Inflection

Neuter a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*kumīn
Genitive	*kumīnas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*kumīn	*kumīnu
Accusative	*kumīn	*kumīnu
Genitive	*kumīnas	*kumīnō
Dative	*kumīnē	*kumīnum
Instrumental	*kumīnu	*kumīnum

Alternative reconstructions

*kumī

Related terms

*kumil

Descendants

Old English: cymen m or n, cumin
- Middle English: comyn, comyne, comyng, cummyng, cumyn, cymin
  - English: cumin
Old Saxon: kumīn, kumin
- Middle Low German: kōmīn, kȫmen, kömmen, commyn, kāmīn, kamīn
  - → Danish: kommen
  - → Old Swedish: kumin
    - Swedish: kummin
    - → Finnish: kumina
Old Dutch: *kumīn
- Middle Dutch: comijn, camijn, comin
  - Dutch: komijn
    - Afrikaans: komyn
    - Negerhollands: komin
Old High German: kumīn, kumin
- Middle High German: kumin
  - Alemannic German: Chümmi
  - German: Kümm
    - → Macedonian: ким (kim)
    - → Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ким
      
      Latin script: kim
  - → Hungarian: kömény
    - → Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: кимијен
      
      Latin script: kimijen
  - → Polish: kmin
    - → Ukrainian: кмин (kmyn), тмин (tmyn), dialectally also кмін (kmin), тмін (tmin), тьмин (tʹmyn), кмінь (kminʹ), кмон (kmon), кмень (kmenʹ), кмен (kmen), цмин (cmyn), цмін (cmin), цьмин (cʹmyn), чмінь (čminʹ), хмін (xmin)
      - → Czech: kmín
      - → Russian: тмин (tmin), кмин (kmin), кими́н (kimín), тимо́н (timón) — obsolete, тминъ (tmin), кминъ (kmin), кими́нъ (kimín), тимо́нъ (timón) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
      - → Slovak: kmín

References

^ Miller, D. Gary (13 June 2012) “Early loanwords from Latin and Greek”, in External Influences on English: From its Beginnings to the Renaissance, Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, § 4.5, page 72: “WGmc. *kumina-”.

[1] Miller, D. Gary (13 June 2012) “Early loanwords from Latin and Greek”, in External Influences on English: From its Beginnings to the Renaissance, Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, § 4.5, page 72: “WGmc. *kumina-”.

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