The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*wemh₁-“to spew, vomit”
- Latin · derived fromvomitāre“vomit repeatedly”
- Middle English · inherited fromvomiten
- English todayvomit
From Middle English vomiten, from Latin vomitāre (“vomit repeatedly”), frequentative form of vomō (“be sick, vomit”), from Proto-Indo-European *wemh₁- (“to spew, vomit”). Cognate with Old Norse váma (“nausea, malaise”), Old English wemman (“to defile”). More at wem.
Words from the same roots
Proto-Indo-European*wemh₁- all →
wem
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.