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, cummyng, comyng, comyne, 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