Where does “-um” come from?

-um (German) comes from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.

-um (German): generally unproductive suffix found in neuter nouns of Latin origin

Definitions

  1. generally unproductive suffix found in neuter nouns of Latin origin

Ancestry of “-um”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
2Proto-Italic*-om—
3Proto-Indo-European*-oHom—

Words derived from “-um”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom →Every word from Latin -um →Every word from Proto-Italic *-om →
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