en.wiktionary.org

kumma - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

  • ️Sun Jul 02 2023

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

From Old High German kuman, chuman, from Proto-West Germanic *kweman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-. Cognate with German kommen, Low German kamen, Dutch komen, English come, Danish komme.

  • IPA(key): /ˈkumɐ/
  • Hyphenation: kum‧ma

kumma (past participle kumma) (East Central Bavarian, Vienna, Southern Bavarian, Carinthia)

  1. to come
    Heid is neamd kumma. ― Nobody has come today.
    Mia kamadn iwamuagn in da Fruah. ― We would come the day after tomorrow in the morning.
Conjugation of kumma
infinitive kumma
past participle kumma
present past subjunctive
1st person singular kumm — kamad
2nd person singular kummst — kamast
3rd person singular kummt — kamad
1st person plural kumma — kamadn
2nd person plural kummts — kamats
3rd person plural kumma — kamadn
imperative
singular kumm
plural kummts

From Proto-Finnic *kumma, possibly from Proto-Uralic *kumma (“shady”).

kumma (comparative kummempi, superlative kummin)

  1. odd, strange

    Onpa kumma, että...

    How strange that ...
  2. (chiefly in the negative, chiefly in comparative) nasty, severe

    Onpa hyvä, että mitään kummempaa ei sattunut!

    How good that nothing more severe happened!
  3. on earth, in the world, the dickens (used as non-profane intensifier with an interrogative pronoun)

    Mitä kummaa täällä on tapahtunut?

    What on earth has taken place here?
  • The comparative and superlative are seldom used. They are usually substituted with corresponding forms of the synonymous adjective kummallinen.
  • kumpi (similar inflected forms)

kumma

  1. strange or odd thing

From Proto-Finnic *kumma. Cognates include Finnish kumma and Estonian -kumm.

kumma

  1. miracle, wonder

    • 1937, N. A. Iljin, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (kolmas osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 25:

      „Katso, mi kumma seel ono?“
      Hää hiljaa karhulle saoi.

      „Look, what kind of wonder is there?“
      It quietly asked the bear.
Declension of kumma (type 3/koira, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative kumma kummat
genitive kumman kummiin
partitive kummaa kummia
illative kummaa kummii
inessive kummaas kummiis
elative kummast kummist
allative kummalle kummille
adessive kummaal kummiil
ablative kummalt kummilt
translative kummaks kummiks
essive kummanna, kummaan kumminna, kummiin
exessive1) kummant kummint
1) obsolete
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.
  • V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 9
  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 218

Alternative scripts

Inherited from Sanskrit कूर्म (kūrmá).

kumma m[1]

  1. a tortoise
  1. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “kūrmá1”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

Categories: