Where does “ymse” come from?
ymse (Old Swedish) comes from Old Norse ýmiss, from Old Norse í, from Proto-Germanic in, from Proto-Indo-European én — in.
Ancestry of “ymse”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old Norse | ýmiss | various, different, alternating |
| 2 | Old Norse | í | in |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | in | in; into |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | én | in |