Where does “ダンプ” come from?

ダンプ (Japanese) comes from English dump, from Middle English dumpen, from Old Norse dumpa — to thump.

ダンプ (Japanese): a dump, memory dump the act of copying or outputting data from a system, or the data so handled

Definitions

  1. a dump, memory dump the act of copying or outputting data from a system, or the data so handled

Ancestry of “ダンプ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishdumpA place where waste or garbage is left; a ground...
2Middle Englishdumpen—
3Old Norsedumpato thump
Every word from Old Norse dumpa →Every word from Middle English dumpen →Every word from English dump →