Re: "stump," "stub," "shortened," "stunted," "blunt"

>In meanwhile, I remember the other word related to curr and cung. It
>is word cub 'bobtailed, with a docked tail',

Hm, this one looks like it might be akin to German Zopf [tsopf].

>cub-ak 'stubble', cub-an 'wearing clothes cut short: in short pants';

Could be the latter related to Bulgarian zabun? (Is there a
Turkish equivalent zIbIn?) But these are... long clothes.

George