Words that come from Proto-West Germanic “*damm”

129 words across 40 languages descend from Proto-West Germanic *damm — including Amsterdam, dam, dame, dan, Rotterdam, cofferdam, Amsterdamer, schiedam.

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English (35)

Dutch (29)

Latin (6)

Polish (5)

Finnish (4)

Middle Dutch (3)

Esperanto (3)

German (3)

Japanese (2)

Chinese (2)

Afrikaans (2)

French (2)

Czech (2)

Romanian (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Middle English (2)

Spanish (2)

Russian (1)

Korean (1)

Yiddish (1)

Hebrew (1)

Cebuano (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Old English (1)

Indonesian (1)

Malay (1)

Sranan Tongo (1)

Old Polish (1)

Vietnamese (1)

Catalan (1)

Danish (1)

Estonian (1)

Portuguese (1)

Slovak (1)

Slovene (1)

Swedish (1)

Azerbaijani (1)

Xhosa (1)

Hindi (1)

Thai (1)