Word Origin Summary

Baum is attested in German. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *baumazProto-West Germanicinherited from
2. *baumProto-West Germanicinherited from
3. boumOld High Germaninherited from
4. boumMiddle High Germaninherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• Baum

  English · borrowed from

• bim

  Volapük · borrowed from

• balm-cricket

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root