Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. gæmnianEnglishinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• backgammon

  Asturian · borrowed from

• gammon

  English · derived from

• backgammon

  Finnish · borrowed from

• gamão

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• backgammon

  French · borrowed from

• gaame

  Yola · inherited from

• backgammon

  English · derived from

• バックギャモン

  Japanese · borrowed 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