An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Rumpf

by Friedrich Kluge

Rumpf, masculine, ‘trunk, body,’ from the equivalent Middle High German (Middle German) rumph, masculine; in Upper German and Middle German botech, Old High German botah (Anglo-Saxon bodig, English body). Compare Low German rump, Dutch romp, ‘trunk,’ Middle English rumpe, English rump, Scandinavian rumpr, ‘rump.’ Allied to rümpfen?.