English

by-room

An adjoining room or apartment; a side room.

    Etymology graph

    • inherited
    • borrowed
    • derived
    • parts
    • meaning component
    • sound component
    • related
    React Flow

    Click a node to zoom in · double-click to open it

    Origin

    From by- + room.

    From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Lineage

    • prefixEnglishby- “Town or city.”
      • inheritedMiddle Englishby “town”
        • inheritedOld Englishbī “being near”
        • derivedOld Norsebýr “town, settlement”
      • derivedMiddle Englishbi-
        • inheritedOld Englishbe- “be-”
        • derivedOld Englishbī- “by, near, around”
    • partEnglishroom “An opportunity or scope (to do something).”
      • inheritedMiddle Englishroum
        • inheritedOld Englishrūm “roomy, spacious, ample, extensive, large, open, unencumbered, unoccupied, temporal, long, extended,…”
      • inheritedMiddle Englishrome
        • inheritedOld Englishrūme “widely, spaciously, roomily, far and wide, so as to extend over a wide space, liberally, extensivel…”

    Sources