Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. *gamanąProto-West Germanicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• gejma

  Swedish · borrowed from

• game

  Dutch · borrowed from

• geama

  Scottish Gaelic · derived from

• backgammon

  Asturian · borrowed from

• backgammon

  Finnish · borrowed from

• gim

  Indonesian · derived from

• gém

  Hungarian · borrowed from

• gamen

  Dutch · borrowed 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