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cummin

6 letters · 5 distinct letters

cummin is in Nectary’s accepted word list, but we don’t have a definition for it yet.

Word history

History of cumin

From Middle English comyn, from Old English cymen (which is cognate with Old High German kumin) and Old French cummin, both from Latin cuminum, from Ancient Greek κύμινον (kúminon), a Semitic borrowing ultimately to be traced to Akkadian 𒂵𒈬𒉡 (Ú.GAMUN /kamūnu/, “cumin”). Possibly related to caraway.

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