Etymology

wormborne

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Today it means: Of a disease or parasite, carried or transmitted by worms. Full definition →

English worm ← Middle English worm ← Old English wyrm
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*wurmiz
  2. Proto-West Germanic*wurmi
  3. Old Englishwyrm
  4. Middle Englishworm
  5. Englishworm
  6. English todaywormborne

From worm + -borne.

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