Etymology

nongame

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Today it means: Not a game, or unrelated to a game Full definition →

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

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

From non- + game.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.