Where does “bébé-boumeur” come from?
bébé-boumeur (French) comes from English baby boomer, from English boomer, from English Boom, from Dutch Boom, from Dutch bodem, from Middle Dutch bodem, from Old Dutch *bodom, from Old English botm — smoke; mist, haze.
bébé-boumeur (French): baby boomer
Ancestry of “bébé-boumeur”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | baby boomer | A person born in the postwar years , when there... |
| 2 | English | boomer | An adult male kangaroo; Ellipsis of baby boomer;... |
| 3 | English | Boom | — |
| 4 | Dutch | Boom | — |
| 5 | Dutch | bodem | bottom; soil, ground; earth surface |
| 6 | Middle Dutch | bodem | — |
| 7 | Old Dutch | *bodom | — |
| 8 | Old English | botm | bottom; foundation; ground; abyss |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | butmaz | bottom; foundation; ground; abyss |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰudʰmḗn | bottom |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰewbʰ- | deep |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰewh₂- | smoke; mist, haze |