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Humpen.

tankard (massy container, usually for beer)

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Meaning & usage

noun/ˈhʊmpən/[ˈhʊm.pən][ˈhʊm.pm̩]
  1. tankard (massy container, usually for beer)

    masculine · strong
Where this word comes from

16th century, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Middle Low German hump (“heap, lump”), Dutch homp (“chunk, gobbet”), English hump, all possibly from a Proto-West Germanic *hump. Within High German it was originally restricted to the colonial dialects (i.e. East Central German), which might suggest a borrowing from the Middle Low German form (though the -mp- is regular). As none of the Germanic words is attested before 1550, any further derivation must remain tentative; but one compares Ancient Greek κύμβη (kúmbē), Middle Irish comm.

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