Etymology

floormate

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Today it means: A person with whom one shares a floor in a building. Full definition →

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

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pleth₂-?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pel-?
  3. Proto-Indo-European*pleh₂-
  4. Proto-Indo-European*pleh₂ros
  5. Proto-Germanic*flōraz
  6. Proto-Germanic*flōruz
  7. Proto-West Germanic*flōr
  8. Old Englishflōr
  9. Middle Englishflor
  10. Englishfloor
  11. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  12. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  13. Proto-Germanic*ga-
  14. Proto-Germanic*matiz
  15. Proto-Germanic*matjô
  16. Proto-West Germanic*gamatjô
  17. Old Saxongimato
  18. Middle Low Germanmate
  19. Middle Englishmate
  20. Englishmate
  21. English todayfloormate

From floor + -mate.

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