Where does “rūm” come from?

rūm (Proto-West Germanic) comes from Proto-Germanic rūmaz, from Proto-Indo-European rewh₁- — free space.

rūm (Proto-West Germanic): roomy, spacious; room, open space

Definitions

  1. roomy, spacious; room, open space

Ancestry of “rūm”, step by step

rūm traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Germanic rūmaz

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicrūmazroomy, spacious, open
2Proto-Indo-Europeanrewh₁-free space

via Proto-Germanic rūmą

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicrūmąroom, open space

Words derived from “rūm”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European rewh₁- →Every word from Proto-Germanic rūmaz →