coomb

Meaning

Noun

• An old English measure of corn (e.g., wheat), equal to half a quarter or 4 bushels.
• Alternate spelling of combe

Origin

• From Middle English *comb, *cumb (> Scots cumb, coom), from Old English cumb ("a vessel; a liquid measure"), from Proto-Germanic *kumbaz ("bowl, vessel"). Compare German Kumpf ("bowl").
• Alternatively, perhaps from Latin cumba ("boat, tomb of stone"), from Ancient Greek κύμβη ("hollow of a vessel, cup, boat").
• From Old English cumb, from Proto-Brythonic (compare Welsh cwm), from Proto-Celtic *kumbā.