Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• dam

  Indonesian · derived from

• дамба

  Ukrainian · derived from

• Ilpendam

  Dutch · inherited from

• édam

  French · borrowed from

• Edam

  Dutch · inherited from

• Dam

  Dutch · inherited from

• Polsbroekerdam

  Dutch · inherited from

• Spaarndam-Oost

  Dutch · inherited from

What You Can Explore

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