cumb

From Proto-Germanic *kumbaz; liken Dutch kom (“bowl, basin”), Welsh cwm (“a hollow valley”), Sanskrit कुम्भ (kumbha, “a pot, jug”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkumb/

cumb m

1. a hollow, narrow valley, combe

   In cumb, of ðam cumbe — in a valley, of the valley

2. a measure of volume (uncertain for liquid but dry is said to be 4 bushels)

   Cumb fulne líðes aloþ, and cumb fulne Welisces aloþ — a coomb full of mild ale and a coomb full of Welsh ale

• fildcumb (“milk pail”)

• English: combe, coombe, coomb