Where does “schwamen” come from?

schwamen (Plautdietsch) comes from Middle Low German schwemmen, from Old Saxon swimman, from Proto-West Germanic swimman, from Proto-Germanic swimmaną, from Proto-Indo-European swem(bʰ)- — to bend, turn, swing; to be unsteady, move, swim.

schwamen (Plautdietsch): to swim

Definitions

  1. to swim

Ancestry of “schwamen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germanschwemmen—
2Old Saxonswimmanto swim
3Proto-West Germanicswimmanto swim
4Proto-Germanicswimmanąto be unsteady; to swim; float
5Proto-Indo-Europeanswem(bʰ)-to bend, turn, swing; to be unsteady, move, swim

Words derived from “schwamen”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European swem(bʰ)- →Every word from Proto-Germanic swimmaną →Every word from Proto-West Germanic swimman →