Where does “healdsum” come from?

healdsum (Old English) comes from Old English sum, from Proto-West Germanic *sum, from Proto-Germanic sumaz, from Proto-Indo-European sem- — together, one.

healdsum (Old English): protective

Definitions

  1. protective

Ancestry of “healdsum”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishsumsome
2Proto-West Germanic*sumsome
3Proto-Germanicsumazsome (one), a certain (one)
4Proto-Indo-Europeansem-together, one
Every word from Proto-Indo-European sem- →Every word from Proto-Germanic sumaz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic *sum →