Where does “לאָנדאָן” come from?

לאָנדאָן (Yiddish) comes from English London, from Middle English London, from Old English Lunden, from Latin Londinium, from Proto-Celtic *Londinyom, from Proto-Indo-European lendʰ- — land, heath; loins.

לאָנדאָן (Yiddish): the British government

Definitions

  1. the British government

Ancestry of “לאָנדאָן”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishLondonSituated on the tidal River Thames in southeast England, with a metropolitan population of more than 13,000,000
2Middle EnglishLondon—
3Old EnglishLundenLondon
4LatinLondiniumLondon
5Proto-Celtic*Londinyom—
6Proto-Indo-Europeanlendʰ-land, heath; loins
Every word from Proto-Indo-European lendʰ- →Every word from Proto-Celtic *Londinyom →Every word from Latin Londinium →