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Where does “Noam” come from?

Noam is an English given name derived from Hebrew נועם, a word of unknown meaning.

Ancestry of “Noam”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle High Germanname—
2Old High Germannamoname; noun
3Proto-West Germanicnamōname
4Proto-Germanicnamôname
5Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁nómn̥name
6Proto-Indo-Europeanh₃neh₃-to name
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₃neh₃- →