Etymology

nameling

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Today it means: Any of a group of people sharing the same name Full definition →

English name ← Middle English name ← Old English nama
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁nómn̥
  2. Proto-Germanic*namô
  3. Proto-West Germanic*namō
  4. Old Englishnama
  5. Middle Englishname
  6. Englishname
  7. English todaynameling

From name + -ling.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.