The story
- Latin · derived fromsomnus“sleep”
- New Latin · derived fromsomnambulus
- French · borrowed fromsomnambulisme
- English todaysomnambulism
From French somnambulisme, from New Latin somnambulus, from Latin somnus (“sleep”) + ambulō (“to walk”), + -ism.
Words from the same roots
Latinsomnus all →
somnolenceparasomniasomn-somnambulantsomnambulationsomnambulizesomnifacientsomniloquacioussomniloquoussomnipathysomnivolent
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.