Where does “dam” come from?

dam (Middle Dutch) comes from Old Dutch dam, from Proto-West Germanic *damm, from Proto-Germanic dammaz — dam.

Ancestry of “dam”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Dutchdam—
2Proto-West Germanic*dammdam
3Proto-Germanicdammazdam

Words derived from “dam”

Every word from Proto-Germanic dammaz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic *damm →Every word from Old Dutch dam →