Etymology

gameness

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Today it means: The quality of being game; bravery, courage or pluck Full definition →

English game ← Middle English game ← Old English gamen
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*gamaną
  2. Proto-West Germanic*gaman
  3. Old Englishgamen
  4. Middle Englishgame
  5. Englishgame
  6. English todaygameness

From game + -ness.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.