Etymology

nongamer

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Today it means: Somebody who is not a gamer; a person who does not play video games. Full definition →

English gamer ← Middle English gamer ← 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. Middle Englishgamer
  7. Englishgamer
  8. English todaynongamer

From non- + gamer.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.