dumb- (-bh?)

    dumb- (-bh?)

    English meaning: penis, tail

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “penis, Schwanz”, perhaps actually ‘stab”

    Material: Av. duma- m. “tail”, Pers. dum, dumb (*dum(h)ma-), O.H.G. zumpfo “penis”, M.H.G. zumpf(e), zumpfelīn (Sũtterlin IF. 4, 93); in addition perhaps Av. dumna- n. “hand (?)” (*dumbna-), s. Scheftelowitz IF. 33, 142 with numerous parallels for the meaningdevelopment “ shaft, pole, staff - penis, tail” and ‘staff - arm, hand”. Probably to M.L.G. timpe “cusp, peak, acme, apex “, O.E. ütimplian “provide with nails”, nasal. form from Gmc. *tippa “tip, tail” in Eng. tip “cusp, peak”, M.H.G. zipf(el); Gmc. *tuppa- “pigtail” in O.N. toppr ds., O.E. topp m. “acme, apex”, M.H.G. zopf “plait, tress”, with bb: M.L.G. tobbe, tubbe ‘spigot”, compare Ltv. duba “assigned sheaf”; Gmc. *tappan ‘spigot” in O.E. tæppa m. (Eng. tap), M.L.G. tappe m., O.H.G. zapho, M.H.G. zapfe m. apparently “popular saying” with intensive consonant increase, nasalization and vowel change a : i : u; compare above S. 221 drop-: drip-: drup-.

    References: WP. I 816, Fick III 155, 164, 168, Petersson Heterokl. 70 f.

    See also: see also above S. 177.