The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*rewH-“to shout, roar”
- Latin · derived fromrūmor“common talk”
- Old French · derived fromrumour
- Middle English · inherited fromrumour
- English todayrumour
From Middle English rumour, from Old French rumour, rumor, from Latin rūmor (“common talk”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *rewH- (“to shout, roar”).
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.