Where does “roomf” come from?
roomf (English) comes from English roommate, from English -mate, from English maté, from Middle English mate, from Middle Low German māte, from Old Saxon gimato, from Proto-Germanic gamatjô, from Proto-Germanic ga- — resin.
roomf (English): A roommate who is also one’s OOMF (a social media follower, most notably on Twitter)
Definitions
- A roommate who is also one’s OOMF (a social media follower, most notably on Twitter)
Ancestry of “roomf”, step by step
roomf traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English roommate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | roommate | A person with whom one shares a room, as at... |
| 2 | English | -mate | Used to form nouns having the sense of "a comrade or fellow with whom what is denoted by the noun is shared" |
| 3 | English | maté | An evergreen tree, Ilex paraquariensis, native to... |
| 4 | Middle English | mate | mate companion, comrade |
| 5 | Middle Low German | māte | — |
| 6 | Old Saxon | gimato | — |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | gamatjô | — |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | ga- | Indicates association or togetherness; co-;... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 11 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 12 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 13 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 14 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 15 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
via English OOMF
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | OOMF | — |