Kummer
- Asurname from German.
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Kummer m anim (female equivalentKummerová)
- a malesurname
Declension ofKummer (hard masculine animate)
FromMiddle High Germankumber(“debris, rubble, obstruction, distress, encumbrance, confiscation”). Cognate withLuxembourgishKommer,Dutchkommer,Old Frisiankummer.
Kummer m (strong,genitiveKummers,no plural)
- grief,sorrow
- Synonym:Leid
- (colloquial)trouble
- Synonyms:Ärger,Problem
Declension ofKummer [sg-only, masculine, strong]
- ^Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “combrus”, inMediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus,Leiden,Boston:E. J. Brill, page204
- ^“encombrer”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012
- ^Kroonen, Guus (2013), “kumbra”, inEtymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series;11)[1], Leiden, Boston:Brill,→ISBN,page310
- “Kummer” inDuden online
- “Kummer” inDigitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
FromMiddle High Germankamer(e), fromOld High Germankamara, a borrowing fromLatincamera. CompareGermanKammer,Dutchkamer.Doublet ofChamber andKamera.
Kummer f (pluralKummeren,diminutiveKimmerchen)
- chamber(small or private room)
- (most often)bedroom
- Synonym:Schlofzëmmer