Etymology

Schaum

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

German Schaum ← Middle High German schūm ← Old High German scūm
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kewH-
  2. Proto-Germanic*skūmaz
  3. Proto-West Germanic*skūm
  4. Old High Germanscūm
  5. Middle High Germanschūm
  6. GermanSchaum
  7. English todaySchaum

Borrowed from German Schaum.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.