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English

Alternative forms

• kümmel

Etymology

From German Kümmel.

Noun

kummel (countable and uncountable, plural kummels)

1. A German caraway liqueur.
   • 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society 2008, p. 140:

     ‘The best kümmel comes in those bear-shaped bottles. It comes from Russia.’

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kümmel, from Middle High German [Term?], from Old High German kumil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?.m?l/
• Hyphenation: kum?mel
• Rhymes: -?m?l

Noun

kummel m (uncountable)

1. caraway, Carum carvi

   Synonym: karwij

2. kummel (caraway-based spirits)

Related terms

• komijn

French

Etymology

From German Kümmel

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky.m?l/

Noun

kummel m (plural kummels)

1. kummel

Further reading

• “kummel” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Probably from Middle English hamelen (“to maim, mutilate; to cut short”), from Old English hamelian (“to hamstring, mutilate”), from Proto-Germanic *hamal?n?, *haml?n? (“to mutilate”), from Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“hornless; mutilated”). Cognate with Dutch hamel (“wether”), English hamble, Low German hommel, hummel (“an animal lacking horns”), humlich, dialectal hommlich (“lacking horns”), Bavarian humlet (“lacking horns”), German hammeln, hämmeln (“to geld”), Icelandic hamla (“to maim, mutilate”).

OxfordDictionaries.com suggests that the “ear of grain with its awns removed” sense preceded the “animal without antlers or horns” sense.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?h?m(?)l/
• Rhymes: -?m?l
• Hyphenation: hum?mel

Noun

hummel (plural hummels)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, also attributive) A stag that has failed to grow antlers; a cow that has not developed horns. [from late 15th c.]
2. (also attributive) Especially in hummel corn: grain that lacks awns (beards or bristles), or has had its awns removed (barley, oats, etc.).

Alternative forms

• humble

Verb

hummel (third-person singular simple present hummels, present participle hummelling, simple past and past participle hummelled)

1. (transitive) Of an animal: to remove the horns; to poll.
2. (transitive) To separate (barley, oats, etc.) from the awns.

Alternative forms

• humble

Synonyms

• (of an animal: to remove the horns): poll

References

Further reading

• hummel (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

hummel m (plural hummels, diminutive hummeltje n)

1. (endearing, informal) A small child.

Usage notes

Mostly used in its diminutive form.

Synonyms

• dreumes