Kume (Kume)

Hollow or dull sound, cloudy weather, glimmering (in the faint or twilight sense, cf. Tennyson’s use of glimmer-gowk for the owl, probably the barn-own). The old Baltic-German kumm:kumme (deep, round bowl or dish) is not very helpful. Part of an oddly-concocted and non-contiguous sinister-street area (See also Kura and Kõnnu). Usually declined kume:kumeda, the present genitive may also be used, but since one of its earlier names was Kuma (glimmer, gleam, shimmer), the meaning is probably of the “It was a dark and stormy night” variety.