Where does “Zim” come from?

Zim (English) comes from Middle English som, from Old English sum, from Proto-West Germanic *sum, from Proto-Germanic sumaz, from Proto-Indo-European sem- — together, one.

Ancestry of “Zim”, step by step

Zim traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle English som

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishsomsome
2Old Englishsumsome
3Proto-West Germanic*sumsome
4Proto-Germanicsumazsome (one), a certain (one)
5Proto-Indo-Europeansem-together, one

via Proto-Nuristani *j̈ima

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Nuristani*j̈ima—
2Proto-Indo-Iranianȷ́ʰimáscold, frost; winter
3Proto-Indo-Europeanǵʰéyōmwinter; year; frost, snow
4Proto-Indo-European-ōmemphatic suffix or postpositive particle
5Proto-Indo-European-mi—

Words derived from “Zim”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European sem- →