Where does “shimmer” come from?
Shimmer comes from Middle English schimeren, from Old English sċymrian, from Proto-Germanic skimarōną, meaning to shine faintly or gleam.
shimmer (English): To shine with a veiled, tremulous, or...
Definitions
- To shine with a veiled, tremulous, or...
Ancestry of “shimmer”, step by step
shimmer traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English shim
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | shim | A wedge; A thin piece of material, sometimes... |
| 2 | English | she | The female person or animal previously mentioned... |
| 3 | Middle English | sche | Third-person singular feminine pronoun: she; It;... |
| 4 | Old English | hēo | she |
| 5 | Germanic | *hiju | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | hijō | she; nominative singular feminine of *hiz |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe- | demonstrative particle; here; this, here |