Word Origin Summary

*baum is attested in Proto-West Germanic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• Zaltbommel

  Dutch · inherited from

• böim

  Alemannic German · inherited from

• Beamer

  German · derived from

• ブーム

  Japanese · borrowed from

• bam

  Old Frisian · inherited from

• Maasbommel

  Dutch · inherited from

• bom

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• bom

  Old Dutch · inherited 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