Kimber

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

  • From the name of a 7th-century English female saint, Kyneburga or Cyneburg, from Old English cyne- (“royal”) + burh (“fortress”).
  • English: probably a habitational name from East and West Kimber in the parish of Northlew in Devon, so named from Old English cempa (“warrior”) (or the Old English personal name Cempa) + bearn (“grove/wood”). It may also be an altered form of Kimbrough. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Kinberg.[1]

Proper noun

Kimber

  1. A surname originating as a matronymic.
  2. A female given name from Old English of modern usage, transferred back from the surname.
    • 1990, Terry Brooks, The Scions of Shannara, Ballantine Books, page 14:
      When Brin Ohmsford had come into Darklin Reach three hundred years earlier, Hearthstone had been the home of Cogline and the child he claimed as his granddaughter, Kimber Boh.

References

  1. ^ Kimber Family HistoryAncestry.com and Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press

German

Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Κίμβρος (Kímbros). Introduced to distinguish from Zimber (“speaker of a Bavarian variety in Italy”).

Noun

Kimber m (weak, genitive Kimbern, plural Kimbern, feminine Kimberin)

  1. (history) a Cimbrian, one of the Cimbri (ancient tribe)

Declension

Declension of Kimber [masculine, weak]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Kimber die Kimbern
genitive eines des Kimbern der Kimbern
dative einem dem Kimbern den Kimbern
accusative einen den Kimbern die Kimbern

Derived terms

  • kimbrisch
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