The French route runs from Greek kyminon through Latin cuminum, Old French comin and Middle English comyn. English had already borrowed Latin’s name earlier as Old English cymen.
Sources
- Collins Dictionaries: cumin
Random House Word origin supplies comin/comyn and replacement of Old English cymen; Webster’s New World and Collins British entries list cummin as a variant.
- Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales · cumin
Meanings of the older forms on the word path.
- logeion.uchicago.edu · κύμινον
Meanings of the older forms on the word path.
- Cambridge Dictionary · cumin
Meanings of the older forms on the word path.
- logeion.uchicago.edu · cuminum
Meanings of the older forms on the word path.
- Collins Dictionaries · cumin
Meanings of the older forms on the word path.