The story
- Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*warmnassī“warmness, warmth”
- Old English · inherited fromwearmnes“warmness, warmth”
- Middle English · inherited fromwarmnesse
- English todaywarmness
From Middle English warmnesse, from Old English wearmnes (“warmness, warmth”), from Proto-West Germanic *warmnassī (“warmness, warmth”), equivalent to warm + -ness. Cognate with Scots warmnes (“warmness”), West Frisian waarmens (“warmness”), dialectal Dutch warmenesse, warmnis (“warmness”), German Low German Warmnis (“warmness”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.