hump
English
/hʌmp/
noun
Definitions
- A mound of earth.
- A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
- animals A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
- (slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- (British) A bad mood.
- (slang) A painfully boorish person.
- A speed hump.
- A wave that forms in front of an operating hovercraft and impedes progress at low speeds.
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch, Flemish homp (lump, hump) borrowed from Middle Low German hump (heap, stump, hill, hump) derived from Old Saxon *hump (hill, thick piece, heap) derived from Proto-Germanic *humpaz (hip, height) derived from Proto-Indo-European *kumb- (curved).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*kumb-
Gloss
curved
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- back English
- backed English
- cwm English
- hummock English
- hummocked English
- hummocking English
- hummocky English
- humpability English
- humpable English
- humpathon English
- humpback English
- humpbacked English
- humpee English
- humper English
- humpily English
- humpiness English
- humpity English
- humpless English
- humplessness English
- humplike English
- humpsore English
- humpy English
- hunch English
- huncher English
- hunchless English
- hunk English
- hunkish English
- hunksome English
- hunky English
- motherhumper English
- sore English
- superhump English
- unhunch English
- cumba Latin
- cymba Latin
- Bierhumpen German
- Humpen German
- homp Dutch, Flemish
- κύμβη Ancient Greek
- *kumb- Proto-Indo-European
- fartshump Norwegian Bokmål
- hump Norwegian Bokmål
- *humpaz Proto-Germanic
- humbak Polish
- fartshump Norwegian Nynorsk
- hump Norwegian Nynorsk
- crump Old English
- crumpen Middle English
- cwm Welsh
- cymoedd Welsh
- *kumbā Proto-Celtic
- hump Middle Low German
- *hump Old Saxon
- hunke West Flemish