Zimber

German

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Cimbrus. The identification of the linguistic group with the ancient tribe is an early-modern academic error.

Noun

Zimber m (weak, genitive Zimbern, plural Zimbern, feminine Zimberin)

1. (linguistics, ethnology) Cimbrian (speaker of a Bavarian variety found in language islands in northeastern Italy)
2. (history) dated form of Kimber (“one of the Cimbri tribe”)

Declension

Declension of Zimber [masculine, weak]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Zimber	die	Zimbern
genitive	eines	des	Zimbern	der	Zimbern
dative	einem	dem	Zimbern	den	Zimbern
accusative	einen	den	Zimbern	die	Zimbern

Derived terms

• zimbrisch
• Zimbrisch