The story
- Proto-Germanic · derived from*kwemaną“to come”
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*kwimidi
- Old English · inherited fromcymþ
- Middle English · inherited fromcometh
- English todaycometh
From Middle English cometh, cumeþ, comth, cumþ, kimeð, from Old English cymþ, cymeþ, from Proto-Germanic *kwimidi, third person singular indicative of Proto-Germanic *kwemaną (“to come”), equivalent to come + -eth. Cognate with Saterland Frisian kumt, West Frisian komt, Dutch komt, German Low German kummt, German kommt.
Words from the same roots
Proto-Germanic*kwemaną all →
coming
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.