pamp

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*bamb-“round object”
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*pampōną“to swell”
3. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*pampōn
4. Old Saxon · derived from*pampōn
5. Middle Low German · derived frompampen“to pamper oneself, live luxuriously”
6. Middle English · inherited frompampen
7. English todaypamp

From Middle English pampen, from Middle Low German pampen (“to pamper oneself, live luxuriously”), from Old Saxon *pampōn, from Proto-West Germanic *pampōn, from Proto-Germanic *pampōną (“to swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *bamb- (“round object”). Cognate with West Frisian pampe (“to stuff, cram”), Dutch pampen (“to cram”), German Low German pampen (“to crush, pound, stuff oneself”), German bampfen, pampen, pampfen (“to cram, gobble, eat greedily”), Norwegian Nynorsk pampa (“to stuff oneself, cram”), Swedish pampen (“stuffed, swollen up”). Compare also Saterland Frisian pämpelje (“to nurture, care for, feed”), West Frisian pampelje (“to pamper”), Dutch pampelen, pamperen (“to cram, pamper”).

Words from the same roots