Etymology

pomeranian

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Today it means: Of, from or relating to Pomerania, a historic region split between the German states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Brandenburg and the Pomeranian Voivodeship, West Pomeranian Voivodeship and Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland. Full definition →

Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó ← Proto-Italic *poomos
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The story

  1. Proto-Italic · derived from*poomos“taken off > fruit”
  2. Proto-Indo-European · inherited from*h₂epó“off”
  3. English todayPomeranian

From Pomerania + -an. Through Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off”), distant doublet of pomegranate, whose first element is from Latin pomum, which itself is from Proto-Italic *poomos (“taken off > fruit”).

Words from the same roots

Proto-Indo-European*h₂epó all →

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