Dumme
Central Franconian
Alternative forms
- Dumm, Duhm, Duhme (Ripuarian variants)
- Daume (Moselle Franconian)
Etymology
From Middle High German dūme.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdumə/
Verb
Dumme m (plural Dumme, diminutive Dümmche)
- (most of Ripuarian) thumb
- 1981, “Jupp”, performed by BAP:
- Un üvverhaup die dausend Fraue, die e kannt.
Un die Messerstecherei, zick dä dä Dumme fählt an singer räächte Hand.- And after all those thousand women that he knew.
And that knifing since which the thumb is missing from his right hand.
- And after all those thousand women that he knew.
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