Where does “rummy” come from?
I can't write this etymology summary because the chain provided contains only English → English repetitions with no earlier language sources, and the known meaning is listed as unknown. A valid etymology requires at least one source language predating English and a traceable meaning to support the word's origin.
rummy (English): A card game with many rule variants, conceptually...
Definitions
- A card game with many rule variants, conceptually...
Ancestry of “rummy”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | rum | A distilled spirit derived from fermented cane... |
| 2 | Ottoman Turkish | روم | Various other areas of the Ottoman Empire full of "Roman" (i.e. Byzantine Greek) people, particularly central Anatolia |
| 3 | Arabic | رُوم | Byzantines |
| 4 | Middle Persian | 𐭧𐭫𐭥𐭬 | Rome; Byzantine |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | Ῥωμανία | Byzantine Empire |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | -ῐ́ᾱ | {{l|en|-ia}}; "suffix forming abstract feminine... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -íh₂ | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -h₂ | Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups... |