Noun: cumber
| Singular | cumber |
| Plural | cumbers |
Sample Sentences
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Fleet foot on the correi, / Sage counsel in cumber, / Red hand in the foray, / How sound is thy slumber! [1810, The Lady of the Lake, Walter Scott, 3.XVI:]
Nouns inflected like cumber
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English komber, kumbre, cumbre, combre (“distress; destruction”). Used in 14th century Middle English in the very scarcely attested “destruction” sense but not in common use until the 16th century; at first chiefly Scots, where it is also spelled cummer. Further etymology is uncertain, the term is either:
2. * an aphetic form of encomber, encumbir, encumbre (“trouble; misfortune; harm, ruin”), itself from Old French encombre (“a hindrance, difficulty”), see Etymology 1 and French encombrer for further etymology; or,
3. * cognate with Middle High German kumber (German Kummer), Middle Low German kummer, and Dutch kommer with which it strikingly shares the meaning “trouble, distress”, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *kumbr (“burden, trouble, sorrow”); or,
4. * a deverbal from cumber. See: Middle English Nouns '
komber', German Nouns '
Kummer', Dutch Nouns '
kommer'.
Verbs referencing "cumber"
German Nouns
Kummer, Italian Nouns
ingombro.