Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination. · To range or wander over. · To use a network or service from different locations or devices. · To transmit (resources) between different locations or devices, to allow comparable usage from any of them.
The act of roaming; a wander; a travel without aim or destination
From Middle English romen, from Old English rāmian, from Proto-Germanic *raimōną (“to wander”), from *raim- (“to move, raise”), from *h₃reyH- (“to move, lift, flow”). Akin to Old English ārǣman (“to arise, stand up, lift up”), Old High German rāmēn (“to aim”) ( > archaic German rahmen (“to strive”)), Middle Dutch rammen (“to night-wander, to copulate”), rammelen (“to wander about, ramble”). More at ramble.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
{
"templates": [
{
"name": "inh",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "romen"
},
"expansion": "Middle English romen"
},
{
"name": "inh",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "rāmian"
},
"expansion": "Old English rāmian"
},
{
"name": "inh",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*raimōną",
"t": "to wander"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *raimōną (“to wander”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "ārǣman",
"t": "to arise, stand up, lift up"
},
"expansion": "Old English ārǣman (“to arise, stand up, lift up”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "goh",
"2": "rāmēn",
"t": "to aim"
},
"expansion": "Old High German rāmēn (“to aim”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "rahmen",
"t": "to strive"
},
"expansion": "German rahmen (“to strive”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "rammen",
"t": "to night-wander, to copulate"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch rammen (“to night-wander, to copulate”)"
}
],
"links": [
[
"romen",
"romen#Middle_English"
],
[
"rāmian",
"ramian#Old_English"
],
[
"*raimōną",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/raimōną"
],
[
"*raim-",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/raim-"
],
[
"*h₃reyH-",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₃reyH-"
],
[
"ārǣman",
"aræman#Old_English"
],
[
"rāmēn",
"ramen#Old_High_German"
],
[
"rahmen",
"rahmen#German"
],
[
"rammen",
"rammen#Middle_Dutch"
],
[
"rammelen",
"rammelen#Middle_Dutch"
],
[
"ramble",
"ramble#English"
]
],
"references": [],
"descendants": [],
"lexical": [
{
"pos": "verb",
"glosses": [
"To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.",
"To range or wander over.",
"To use a network or service from different locations or devices.",
"To transmit (resources) between different locations or devices, to allow comparable usage from any of them."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
],
"recordId": "11c74c03a391490002233d4bda70e8f29f74d67b44561932bc3a1cde05a4722a",
"rawRecordSha256": "73a9a7ddff05d35b2ac652402ff2799abef763787e35c235b08950b082872ad6",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 295240
},
{
"pos": "noun",
"glosses": [
"The act of roaming; a wander; a travel without aim or destination"
],
"tags": [],
"recordId": "bb21fd0d3f08a6c3b150359ff564cb844418bfe457849fa9edd317266353444e",
"rawRecordSha256": "403e386004491d64ee5ba0a110880fcfaa926a17c6295ea45421ec4b2ccd1215",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 295241
}
],
"omittedAuxiliaryFields": {
"templates": 0,
"links": 0,
"references": 0,
"descendants": 0,
"lexicalRecords": 0,
"lexicalSenses": 0,
"glosses": 0
}
}