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Where does “tin” come from?

tin (Old Dutch) comes from Proto-Germanic tiną, from Proto-Indo-European dinom.

Ancestry of “tin”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanictinątin
2Proto-Indo-Europeandinom—

Words derived from “tin”

  • tinnen
  • tin
  • tin
  • ten
Every word from Proto-Indo-European dinom →