Where does “threesome” come from?

Threesome is a compound of English three and English some, ultimately deriving from Proto-Indo-European tewh₂- and Proto-Indo-European sem- meaning one or together.

threesome (English): A group of three people or things; An instance of...

Definitions

  1. A group of three people or things; An instance of...

Ancestry of “threesome”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-someCharacterized by some specific condition or...
2Middle English-somsome; having a specific quality
3Old Englishsumsome
4Proto-West Germanic*sumsome
5Proto-Germanicsumazsome (one), a certain (one)
6Proto-Indo-Europeansem-together, one

Words derived from “threesome”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European sem- →