Etymology

Koopmann

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Today it means: A surname from German. Full definition →

Middle Low German kōpman ← Old Saxon kōpman ← Proto-West Germanic *kaupamann
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*kaupamann
  2. Old Saxon · derived fromkōpman
  3. Middle Low German · derived fromkōpman“merchant, buyer”
  4. English todayKoopmann

North/Low German surname, from Middle Low German kōpman (“merchant, buyer”), from Old Saxon kōpman, from Proto-West Germanic *kaupamann. This is the Low German form of Kaufmann. Compare Koopman.

Words from the same roots

Proto-West Germanic*kaupamann all →

chapman

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.