köken: From Middle High German tump, from Old High German tumb, from Proto-West Germanic *dumb, from Proto-Germanic *dumbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-. The modern consonantism is Central and Low German (compare Middle Low German dumb, dumm, from Old Saxon dumb). The rare literary variant tumb is a poetic archaism directly borrowed from Middle High German; the expected form of this source is…
eş: bête à cornes, limaçon, colimaçon, luma, cagouille, schneck
köken: From Occitan escargol, alteration of caragol, metathesis of cagaròl, possibly from a cross between Latin conchylium and Ancient Greek κάχλαξ (kákhlax), but see cagaròl. Doublet of cagouille.
köken: From Proto-Italic *tardo-, from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂-d-o-, from the root *terh₂- (“to cross over, pass through, overcome”). The phonetic development follows the regular Latin outcome of a syllabic liquid followed by a laryngeal (*r̥h₂ > -ar-). Semantically, the word likely shifted from "drawn out" or "taking a long time to cross/endure" to "slow" or "late". Cognate with Sanskrit तरति…