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Where does “rame” come from?
rame (Middle Dutch) comes from Old Saxon hrama, from Proto-West Germanic *hramu — (timber) frame.
Ancestry of “rame”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Old Saxon
hrama
frame, framework
2
Proto-West Germanic
*hramu
(timber) frame
Words derived from “rame”
raam
ramen
raamwerk
glas-in-loodraam
dakraam
denkraam
raamloos
deurraam
spanraam
raamscharnier
trasraam
ram
beramen
raming
trasram
Every word from Proto-West Germanic *hramu →