Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. rūmEnglishinherited from
2. roumMiddle Englishinherited from
3. roomEnglishborrowed from
4. *rūmąProto-West Germanicinherited from
5. *rūmProto-West Germanicinherited from
6. *rewh₁-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from
7. romeMiddle Englishinherited from
8. rūmeEnglishinherited from

What You Can Explore

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