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Where does “swamm” come from?

swamm (Old English) comes from Proto-Germanic *swammaz, from Proto-Indo-European swombh- — sponge, tree-fungus, swamp.

swamm (Old English): mushroom, fungus; sponge; first/third-person...

Definitions

  1. mushroom, fungus; sponge; first/third-person...

Ancestry of “swamm”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanic*swammaz—
2Proto-Indo-Europeanswombh-sponge, tree-fungus, swamp

Words derived from “swamm”

  • swamp
  • swampy
  • swampland
  • swamper
  • backswamp
  • swampiness
  • swamplike
  • swampish
  • swamphen
  • swampless
  • swamplife
  • swampily
  • zwamp
  • swam
  • meteswamm
  • feldswamm
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