Word Origin Summary

*nem- is attested in Proto-Indo-European. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• lamba

  Hausa · borrowed from

• nëmë

  SQI · inherited from

• ᠨᠣᠮ

  Halh Mongolian · derived from

• numerus

  Latin · derived from

• numara

  Turkish · derived from

• nümerik

  Turkish · borrowed from

• numbur

  Brunei Malay · borrowed from

• νέμω

  Ancient Greek · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root