The evidence shows that, in the study area, the word forms for the morpho-lexical type Eimer stand for 'vessel for milking', while the BUCKET is called Kübel (gem.).
Besides the German-language records, cognates are also found in Slovenian dialects, mainly with the meaning 'bucket', e.g., ajmar or ajmarelj, ejmpar, jempa, lambar and lempa (cf. the map Bucket). Related word forms are found throughout the eastern Alpine region, especially as loan words in Slovenian dialects. The phonetic realisation as /empar/ in particular, which can be deduced from the records of the SLA, shows the transfer of the word type via Bavarian, where Empa is also being used. The dictionaries (cf. DWB: under Eimer; EWBD: under Eimer) see the ahd. eimbar (cf. AWB: under Eimer) as a derivative from the Latin amphora, which in turn was borrowed from the Gr. ἀμφορεύς (amphoreús) (cf. Kluge: under Eimer).