Kummerbund

See also: kummerbund

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English cummerbund, from Hindustani کمر بند / कमरबंद (kamarband), from Classical Persian کمربند (kamarband), derived from کمر (kamar, “waist”) + بند (band, “band”).

The English -u- (instead of more etymological -a-) is a pronunciation spelling representing Hindi [ɐ]. In German, in turn, this -u- was given a spelling pronunciation, leading to [ʊ] as well as a remotivation as Kummer (“sorrow”) + Bund (“waistband”). German Bund is indeed related with Persian بند (band) through Proto-Indo-European.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʊmərˌbʊnt/, [ˈkʊmɐˌbʊnt]

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Noun

Kummerbund m (strong, genitive Kummerbundes or Kummerbunds, plural Kummerbunde)

1. cummerbund

Declension

Declension of Kummerbund [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Kummerbund	die	Kummerbunde
genitive	eines	des	Kummerbundes, Kummerbunds	der	Kummerbunde
dative	einem	dem	Kummerbund, Kummerbunde1	den	Kummerbunden
accusative	einen	den	Kummerbund	die	Kummerbunde

¹Now rare, see notes.

Further reading

• “Kummerbund” in Duden online