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Where does “gimeni” come from?

gimeni (Old Saxon) comes from Proto-West Germanic gamainī, from Proto-Germanic gamainiz, from Proto-Indo-European ḱom-moynis.

Ancestry of “gimeni”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanicgamainīcommon; shared, communal
2Proto-Germanicgamainizshared, communal, public; common, ordinary
3Proto-Indo-Europeanḱom-moynis—
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