Where does “yeoman” come from?
Yeoman comes from Middle English yoman, from Old English ġēamann, formed from Old English ġē combined with a word ultimately deriving from Proto-Indo-European h₂ekʷeh₂.
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Ancestry of “yeoman”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | yeman | — |
| 2 | Old English | ġēamann | — |
| 3 | Old English | ġē | ye |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | jahw | and, also |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -hw | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | -hwe | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -kʷe | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |
Words derived from “yeoman”