Etymology

bunkmate

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Today it means: One who sleeps in the same area as another person. Full definition →

English mate ← Middle English mate ← Middle Low German mate
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The story

  1. Englishbunkumclip.
  2. Englishbunk
  3. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  4. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  5. Proto-Germanic*ga-
  6. Proto-Germanic*matiz
  7. Proto-Germanic*matjô
  8. Proto-West Germanic*gamatjô
  9. Old Saxongimato
  10. Middle Low Germanmate
  11. Middle Englishmate
  12. Englishmate
  13. English todaybunkmate

From bunk + -mate.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.