Where does “name” come from?

name (Middle English) comes from Old English nama, from Proto-West Germanic namō, from Proto-Germanic namô, from Proto-Indo-European h₁nómn̥, from Proto-Indo-European h₃neh₃- — to name.

name (Middle English): name

Definitions

  1. name

Ancestry of “name”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishnamaname; noun
2Proto-West Germanicnamōname
3Proto-Germanicnamôname
4Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁nómn̥name
5Proto-Indo-Europeanh₃neh₃-to name

Words derived from “name”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₃neh₃- →
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